Characteristics of citations used by humanities researchers

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 19-36

  Zainab, Awang Ngah ^a   Goi, Sook Sze ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Age distribution of literature; Authorship pattern; Bibliometrics; Bradfords's analysis; Citation analysis; Geographical distribution of citations; Half life of citations; Humanities; Journal ranking; Language distribution of citations; Subject distribution of citations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748498139     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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