Search strategies along the academic lifecycle

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1137-1160

  Horlings, Edwin ^a   Gurney, Thomas ^a  

^a Rathenau Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic careers; Agenda setting; Complex adaptive system; Lifecycle; Mapping science; Problem choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873749865     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0789-3     Document Type: Article

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