A critical review of SCImago Journal & Country Rank

Research Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 343-354

  Mañana Rodríguez, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

database coverage; journal rankings; SCImago; Scopus; SJR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947606273     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvu008     Document Type: Article

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