Academic inequality through the lens of community ecology: A meta-analysis

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Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Mori, Akira S ^a   Qian, Shenhua ^b   Tatsumi, Shinichi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dominance; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Societal hierarchy; Species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISEASE CARRIER; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; IDENTITY; META ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORT;

EID: 84951124659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1457     Document Type: Article

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