Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by turkish authors

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1011-1022

  Al, Umut ^a   Şahiner, Mustafa ^a   Tonta, Yaşar ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

HUMANITIES JOURNAL; MONOGRAPHS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS;

HUMANITIES COMPUTING;

EID: 33745592533     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20366     Document Type: Article

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