Universities Scale Like Cities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  van Raan, Anthony F J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; POWER ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCALE UP; UNIVERSITY; URBAN AREA;

CITIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84875462713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059384     Document Type: Article

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