Relationship between authors' structural position in the collaboration network and research productivity: Case of Indian earth scientists

Program

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 355-369

  Kumar, Sameer ^a   Jan, Jariah Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Co authorship networks; Digital libraries; Earth science; India; Research collaborations; Social Network Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921855992     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/PROG-01-2013-0002     Document Type: Article

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