Recent trends in academic journal growth

Scientometrics

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 693-716

  Gu, Xin ^a   Blackmore, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic journal; Academic science; Journal development; Journal growth; Scholarly journal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969837194     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1985-3     Document Type: Article

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