Impact measures for libraries and information services

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 547-562

  Poll, Roswitha ^a   Payne, Philip P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information services; Libraries; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751441279     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378830610715419     Document Type: Article

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