How useful are 'key words' in scientific journals?

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 433-438

  Hartley, James ^a   Kostoff, Ronald N ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Articles; Indexing; Information retrieval; Periodicals; Relevance; Science and technology

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0142031071     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01655515030295008     Document Type: Article

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