The role of web-based information in the scholarly communication of chemists: Citation and content analyses of American Chemical Society journals

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2055-2065

  Brown, Cecelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; WEB-BASED INFORMATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 36849088122     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20666     Document Type: Article

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