A bibliometric/geographic assessment of 40 years of software engineering research (1969-2009)

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1343-1366

  Garousi, Vahid ^a,b   Ruhe, Guenther ^b  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bibliometric study; geographic bibliometric assessment; software engineering

Indexed keywords

PUBLISHING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BIBLIOMETRIC; REGIONAL LEVELS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH OUTPUTS; RESEARCH TOPICS; SE DISCIPLINE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING JOURNALS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84899106725     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194013500423     Document Type: Article

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