Global ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic journals: 2013 update

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 307-326

  Serenko, Alexander ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Expert survey; Intellectual capital; Journal ranking; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Scientometrics; Serials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875628816     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673271311315231     Document Type: Article

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