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Half a century of Quality & Quantity: a bibliometric review

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The Quality & Quantity was established in 1967 and in 2017 it completed its half century. The journal is interdisciplinary in nature and it mainly discusses methodological application of mathematics and statistics in the social sciences, particularly sociology, economics, and social psychology. It was created with the idea of advancing methodology of the various social studies. This study looks back journey of the journal from 1967 to 2017 aims to develop a bibliometric analysis of all the publications of the journal. Web of Science Core Collection database is used to collect data. The present study discovered the significant contributions of the journal in terms of impact, topics, authors, universities and countries. Utrecht University of Netherlands is the most productive university. Asian Universities are emerging and growing quickly in the recent years. Although USA leads among the countries but Europe leads among the six supranational regions. Finally, the visualization of similarities viewer software is used to present network visualization of the bibliographic coupling, co-citation, citation, co-authorship and co-occurrence of keywords.

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  1. Department of Management, University of Valencia, Av. Tarongers, S/N, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Alicia Mas-Tur

  2. Palpara Vidyamandir, Chakdaha, West Bengal, 741222, India

    Nikunja Mohan Modak

  3. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015, Santiago, Chile

    José M. Merigó

  4. ESIC Business & Marketing School, Valencia, Spain

    Norat Roig-Tierno

  5. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Massimiliano Geraci & Vittorio Capecchi

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Mas-Tur, A., Modak, N.M., Merigó, J.M. et al. Half a century of Quality & Quantity: a bibliometric review. Qual Quant 53, 981–1020 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-018-0799-1

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