Relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations: A case study in Spanish computer science production in 2000-2009

Scientometrics

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 689-716

  Ibáñez, Alfonso ^a   Bielza, Concha ^a   Larrañaga, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Collaboration patterns; Computer science; Number of authors; Number of citations; Number of documents; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876090155     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0883-6     Document Type: Article

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