Collaboration experiences across scientific disciplines and cohorts

Scientometrics

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 505-529

  Tsai, Chin Chang ^a   Corley, Elizabeth A ^a   Bozeman, Barry ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort differences; Collaboration experiences; Collaboration patterns; Research collaboration; Scientific disciplines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983071361     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1997-z     Document Type: Article

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