The "own-language preference": Measures of relative language self-citation

Scientometrics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-232

  Egghe, L ^a,b   Rousseau, R ^a,b   Yitzhaki, M ^c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0000748161     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02458434     Document Type: Article

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