The scientific impact of nations: Journal placement and citation performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Matthew J ^a,c   Weinberger, Cody ^a   Bruna, Emilio M ^b   Allesina, Stefano ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Northern Plains Center for Human Potential United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECOLOGY; FUNDING; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICS; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; UNITED STATES; WRITING; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATIONS; SCIENCE;

EID: 84907855604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109195     Document Type: Article

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