Research groups: How big should they be?

PeerJ

Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Cook, Isabelle ^a   Grange, Sam ^a   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citations; Impact factor; Productivity; Research group

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CITATION ANALYSIS; FUNDING; GROUP STRUCTURE; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PHD STUDENT; POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; RESEARCH GROUP SIZE; RESEARCH STUDENT; SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 84944719679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.989     Document Type: Article

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