Is information systems a reference discipline?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 114-118

  Katerattanaku, Pairin ^a   Han, Bernard ^a   Rea, Alan ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CITATION ANALYSIS METHOD; LANGUAGE-ACTION PERSPECTIVE; REFERENCE DISCIPLINE; SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX (SSCI);

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745906977     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1125944.1125950     Document Type: Review

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