The earliest Hebrew citation indexes

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 318-330

  Weinberg, Bella Hass ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

HEBREW CITATION INDICES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0031116878     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199704)48:4<318::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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