A bibliometric mapping of the structure of STEM education using co-word analysis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2513-2536

  Assefa, Shimelis G ^a   Rorissa, Abebe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-WORD ANALYSIS; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION AND TRAINING; EDUCATIONAL POLICY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHEMATICS; STEM EDUCATION;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84887501223     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22917     Document Type: Article

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