Doctoral dissertations of Library and Information Science in China: A co-word analysis

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 781-799

  Zong, Qian Jin ^a   Shen, Hong Zhou ^a   Yuan, Qin Jian ^a   Hu, Xiao Wei ^a   Hou, Zhi Ping ^a   Deng, Shun Guo ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Co word analysis; Library and Information Science; LIS doctoral dissertations in China; Strategic diagram

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872487001     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0799-1     Document Type: Article

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