Overlap in bibliographic databases

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1091-1103

  Hood, William W ^a   Wilson, Concepción S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES; INTRA-DATABASE DUPLICATION; LOTKA-TYPE PLOT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141637223     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10301     Document Type: Article

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