A bibliometric analysis of the Turkish software engineering research community

Scientometrics

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-49

  Garousi, Vahid ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Research community; Researchers; Scholars; Software engineering; Turkey; Turkish universities and institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942987899     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1663-x     Document Type: Article

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