Can scientific journals be classified in terms of aggregated journal-journal citation relations using the journal citation reports?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 601-613

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AGGREGATED CITATION RELATIONS; DELINEATION; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; UNAMBIGUOUS CLASSIFICATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33645031696     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20322     Document Type: Review

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