Early career researchers: Scholarly behaviour and the prospect of change

Learned Publishing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 157-166

  Nicholas, David ^a   Watkinson, Anthony ^a   Boukacem Zeghmouri, Cherifa ^b   Rodríguez Bravo, Blanca ^c   Xu, Jie ^d   Abrizah, Abdullah ^e   Świgoń, Marzena ^f   Herman, Eti ^a  

^a CIBER RESEARCH LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

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EID: 85013343969     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: 17414857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/leap.1098     Document Type: Article

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