Is the academic Ivory Tower becoming a managed structure? A nested analysis of the variance in activities of researchers from natural sciences and engineering in Canada

Scientometrics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 431-448

  Halilem, Norrin ^a   Amara, Nabil ^a   Landry, Réjean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Institutional management; Ivory Tower; Multi level variance analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027950066     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0278-5     Document Type: Article

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