Are Chinese nanoscience citation curves converging towards their American counterparts?

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 49-56

  Hu, Xiaojun ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^b,c,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

China; Citation curves; Convergence; Nanoscience and nanotechnology; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892424809     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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