Visualizing the configuration of scientific literature: A study of disciplinary relationships

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-51

  Ackerson, Linda G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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