Productivity in the internet mailing lists: A bibliometric analysis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-59

  Kuperman, Victor ^a  

^a Fourth Dimension Software   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; DATASETS; YULE-SIMON DISTRIBUTION;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 33645315805     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20252     Document Type: Article

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