Profiles of monograph authors in the social sciences and humanities: an analysis of productivity, career stage, co-authorship, disciplinary affiliation and gender, based on a regional bibliographic database

Scientometrics

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1673-1686

  Verleysen, Frederik T ^a   Ossenblok, Truyken L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Books; Career stage; Co authorship; Disciplinary affiliation; Gender; Productivity; Social sciences and humanities

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014171247     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2312-3     Document Type: Article

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