The changing dynamics in citation index publication position China in a race with the USA for global leadership

Scientometrics

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1031-1050

  Moiwo, Juana Paul ^a   Tao, Fulu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Citation index publication; Normalized publication; Web of Knowledge; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877629524     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0846-y     Document Type: Article

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