Middle East: research productivity and performance across nations

Scientometrics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1157-1166

  Gul, Sumeer ^a   Nisa, Nahida Tun ^b   Shah, Tariq Ahmad ^c   Gupta, Sangita ^d   Jan, Asifa ^a   Ahmad, Suhail ^e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b Government College for Women   (India)

^c ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical tools; Bibliometrics; InCites; Middle East; Research analytics; Research indicators; Research output; Research performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945469519     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1722-3     Document Type: Article

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