Link decay in leading information science journals

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-24

  Goh, Dion Hoe Lian ^a   Ng, Peng Kin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE JOURNALS; LINK DECAY PHENOMENON; ONLINE LITERATURE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 33845972987     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20513     Document Type: Article

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