How does prolific professors influence on the citation impact of their university departments?

Scientometrics

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 941-961

  Piro, Fredrik Niclas ^a   Rørstad, Kristoffer ^a   Aksnes, Dag W ^a  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

Author keywords

Productivity distribution; Professors; Research productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960125511     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1900-y     Document Type: Article

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