A study of the use of variables in information retrieval user studies

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-150

  Yuan, Weijing ^a   Meadow, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; INFORMATION USE;

INFORMATION USER CO-CITATION ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032785932     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:2<140::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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