Ranking of finance journals: Some Google Scholar citation perspectives

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages 241-250

  Chan, Kam C ^a   Chang, Chih Hsiang ^b   Chang, Yuanchen ^c  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Citations; Google Scholar; Journal ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874216029     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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