South African universities in world rankings

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 675-695

  Matthews, Alan Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking; South African universities; Times Higher Education ranking; World university rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865500689     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0611-7     Document Type: Article

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