Scientometric sorting by importance for literatures on life cycle assessments and some related methodological discussions

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1462-1467

  Qian, Ge ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Betweenness centrality metric; Citation frequency; CiteSpace II; Document co citation analysis; Life cycle assessments; Scientometric method

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CITATION ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SCOPUS;

EID: 84902543731     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-014-0747-9     Document Type: Note

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