A comparison of top economics departments in the US and EU on the basis of the multidimensional prestige of influential articles in 2010

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 681-698

  Garcia J A ^a   Rodriguez Sánchez, Rosa ^a   Fdez Valdivia, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citation impact; Economics department; Influential articles; ISI Impact Factor; MIT; Multidimensional prestige; Oxford University; Princeton University; Publication based ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869188726     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0708-7     Document Type: Article

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