What can university administrators do to increase the publication and citation scores of their faculty members?

Scientometrics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 489-530

  Amara, Nabil ^a   Landry, Réjean ^a   Halilem, Norrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic rank; Citations; Fields; Publications; Survey; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936928769     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1537-2     Document Type: Article

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