Benchmarking the research track record and level of appointment of Australian occupational therapy academics

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 400-407

  Broome, Kieran ^a,b   Gray, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; occupational therapy; universities

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIST; SCOPUS; UNIVERSITY; AUSTRALIA; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA; BIBLIOMETRICS; FACULTY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RESEARCH; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 85018897488     PISSN: 00450766     EISSN: 14401630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1440-1630.12387     Document Type: Article

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