The place of serials in referencing practices: Comparing natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 997-1004

  Larivière, Vincent ^a   Archambault, Éric ^a   Gingras, Yves ^a   Vignola Gagné, Étienne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Science Metrix   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; ROM; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; JOURNAL-BASED DATABASES; MONOGRAPHS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

EID: 33745606214     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20349     Document Type: Article

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