Definition of authorship in social science journals

Scientometrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 563-585

  Chang, Yu Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acknowledgment; Authorship; Journals; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058839979     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2986-1     Document Type: Article

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