Measuring the quantity and quality of scholarly productivity in criminology and criminal justice: a test of three integrated models

Scientometrics

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2011-2022

  Walters, Glenn D ^a  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Criminology and criminal justice; First author publications; Scholarly productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925519926     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1496-z     Document Type: Article

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