The effect of booming countries on changes in the relative specialization index (RSI) on country level

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1391-1401

  Aksnes, Dag W ^a   van Leeuwen, Thed N ^b   Sivertsen, Gunnar ^a  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity index; China; Publication indicators; Relative specialization index; Scientific specialisation; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893688049     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1245-3     Document Type: Article

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