Half a century of Quality & Quantity: a bibliometric review
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Mas-Tur, Alicia
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Modak, Nikunja Mohan
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Merigó Lindahl, José
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Roig-Tierno, Norat
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Geraci, Massimiliano
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Capecchi, Vittorio
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2019-10-22T03:08:29Z
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2019-10-22T03:08:29Z
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2019
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Quality and Quantity, Volumen 53, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 981-1020
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15737845
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00335177
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10.1007/s11135-018-0799-1
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/171840
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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.