Estimating Business and Management journal quality from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1078-1093

  Mingers, John ^a   Watson, Kate ^a   Scaparra, Maria Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Journal rankings; Linear programming (LP); Research Assessment Exercise (RAE); Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; JOURNAL ARTICLES; JOURNAL QUALITY; JOURNAL RANKINGS; OVERALL QUALITY; RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH OUTPUTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84865699418     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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