Atapuerca: Evolution of scientific collaboration in an emergent large-scale research infrastructure

Scientometrics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1505-1520

  Lozano, Sergi ^a,b   Rodríguez, Xosé Pedro ^a,b   Arenas, Alex ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atapuerca; Co authorship; Emergent large scale research infrastructures; Network analysis; Scientific collaboration dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892857240     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1162-x     Document Type: Article

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