Making an equality of ISI impact factors for different subject fields

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 676-683

  Sombatsompop, Narongrit ^a   Markpin, Teerasak ^a  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

IMPACT FACTOR POINT AVERAGE (IFPA); IMPACT FACTORS; INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION (ISI); MATHEMATICAL INDEXES;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 19944379171     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20150     Document Type: Article

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