Within- and between-department variability in individual productivity: the case of economics

Scientometrics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1497-1520

  Perianes Rodriguez, Antonio ^a   Ruiz Castillo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic age; Economics departments; Scientific productivity distributions; Within and between group variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922073758     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1449-6     Document Type: Article

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