Heterogeneity of collaboration and its relationship with research impact in a biomedical field

Scientometrics

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 443-466

  Bordons, María ^a   Aparicio, Javier ^a   Costas, Rodrigo ^b  

^a la Tecnologia y la Innovacion   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilateral and multilateral collaboration; Biomedicine; Co authorship; Research impact; Scientific collaboration; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880131864     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0890-7     Document Type: Article

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