Structure of the impact factor of journals included in the social sciences citation index: Citations from documents labeled "editorial material"

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-262

  González, Lidia ^a   Campanario, Juan Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ACADEMIC JOURNALS; CITATION INDEXES; IMPACT FACTORS; INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION (ISI);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846365985     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20424     Document Type: Article

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