Funding programmes for young scientists - Do the 'best' apply?

Research Evaluation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 270-279

  Neufeld, Jörg ^a   Hornbostel, Stefan ^a  

^a IFQ Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung   (Germany)

Author keywords

bibliometric indicators; citations; research funding; research performance; young scientists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867567653     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvs018     Document Type: Article

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