Impact of GDP, Spending on R&D, Number of Universities and Scientific Journals on Research Publications among Asian Countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Meo, Sultan Ayoub ^a   Al Masri, Abeer A ^a   Usmani, Adnan Mahmood ^a   Memon, Almas Naeem ^b   Zaidi, Syed Ziauddin ^c  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ISRA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIOLOGY;

ASIA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84879264796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066449     Document Type: Article

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