Bibliometrics of social science and humanities research in India

Current Science

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 2240-2247

  Tripathi, Manorama ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^b   Babbar, Parveen ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Authorship; Bibliometrics; Citations; Social sciences and humanities

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048232957     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v114/i11/2240-2247     Document Type: Article

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