Which factors explain the Web impact of scientists' personal homepages?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 200-211

  Barjak, Franz ^a,b   Li, Xuemei ^a,b   Thelwall, Mike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; HTTP; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; ONLINE SEARCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXTERNAL INLINKS; HYPERLINKS; PERSONAL HOMEPAGES; WEB UNKING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 33846377801     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20476     Document Type: Article

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