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An analysis of gender differences in psychology in India provides quantitative and qualitative assessment of R&D output contributed by psychologists with the indication of the trend of growth, skewness, relatedness, co-authorship pattern of productivity.
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Goel, K. Gender differences in publication productivity in psychology in India. Scientometrics 55, 243–258 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019667708012
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