Cities on and off the map: A bibliometric assessment of urban globalisation research

Urban Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 2569-2585

  Kanai, J Miguel ^a   Grant, Richard ^b,d   Jianu, Radu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; cosmopolitanism; globalisation; ordinary cities; urbanisation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; GLOBALIZATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MAPPING METHOD; RESEARCH METHOD; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

SCOPUS;

EID: 85034789596     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098017720385     Document Type: Article

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