Edited books in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Characteristics and collaboration analysis

Scientometrics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 219-237

  Ossenblok, Truyken L B ^a   Engels, Tim C E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP MARITIME ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Co authorship; Co editorship; Collaboration; Edited books; Flanders; Social Sciences and Humanities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930820611     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1544-3     Document Type: Article

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