Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from eight European countries

Scientometrics

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 463-486

  Kulczycki, Emanuel ^a   Engels, Tim C E ^b   Pölönen, Janne ^c   Bruun, Kasper ^d   Dušková, Marta ^e   Guns, Raf ^b   Nowotniak, Robert ^f   Petr, Michal ^g   Sivertsen, Gunnar ^h   Istenič Starčič, Andreja ^i,j   Zuccala, Alesia ^k  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Federation of Finnish Learned Societies   (Finland)

^d Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science   (Denmark)

^e Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information   (Slovakia)

^f LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^g MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h Research and Education   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Humanities; Internationalization; Language; Publication patterns; Publication type; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044468417     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2711-0     Document Type: Article

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