Funding ratios in social science: the perspective of countries/territories level and comparison with natural sciences

Scientometrics

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 673-684

  Xu, Xin ^a   Tan, Alice M ^b   Zhao, Star X ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Funding ratio; Science funds; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938741075     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1633-3     Document Type: Article

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