Authorship trends in software engineering

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 257-271

  Fernandes, João M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Number of authors; Scientific authorship; Scientific publication; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939873560     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1331-6     Document Type: Article

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