A bilateral comparison of research performance at an institutional level

Scientometrics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 147-173

  Guan, Jiancheng ^a,b   Wei, He ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collaboration network; Institution; Knowledge network; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology; Social network analysis (SNA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930823900     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1599-1     Document Type: Article

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