Costa Rica publications in the science citation index Expanded: A bibliometric analysis for 1981-2010

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1649-1661

  Monge Nájera, Julián ^a   Ho, Yuh Shan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bibliometry; Citation; Impact factor; Research trend; SCI Expanded; Web of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870261653     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: 22152075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15517/rbt.v60i4.2158     Document Type: Article

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