Can networks of journal-journal citations be used as indicators of change in the social sciences?

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 84-104

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Change; Entropy; Publishing; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037274228     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410310458028     Document Type: Article

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