Science in South Africa: Have Black Africans, Coloureds and Indians prospered since the ending of apartheid?

Proceedings of ISSI 2011 - 13th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 418-429

  Lewison, Grant ^a   Jacobs, Daisy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 84902258189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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