Internationalization of peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed book publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1431-1444

  Verleysen, Frederik T ^a   Engels, Tim C E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP MARITIME ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Barycenter; Enlightenment literature; Internationalization; Peer review; Social Sciences and Humanities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896411614     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1267-x     Document Type: Article

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