The assortativity of scholars at a research-intensive university in Malaysia

Electronic Library

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 162-180

  Kumar, Sameer ^a   Mohd Jan, Jariah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Assortative mixing patterns; Business; Digital libraries; Malaysia; Management; Scholarly communications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928730151     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EL-02-2013-0018     Document Type: Article

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