"Sitation" distributions and Bradford's law in a closed Web space

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 558-580

  Faba Pérez, Cristina ^a   Guerrero Bote, V P ^a   Moya Anegón, Félix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Case studies; Modelling; Spain; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141977348     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410310499582     Document Type: Article

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