Internationalization of academic journals: Is there still a gap between social and natural sciences?

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 241-255

  Dyachenko, Ekaterina L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Economics; Political science; Scientometrics; Sociology; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939871546     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1357-9     Document Type: Article

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