Relationship between links to journal Web sites and impact factors

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 356-361

  Vaughan, Liwen ^a   Hysen, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data collection; Elertronic publishing; Journal publishing; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036921750     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530210452555     Document Type: Article

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