Long-term variations in the aging of scientific literature: From exponential growth to steady-state science (1900-2004)

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-296

  Larivière, Vincent ^a,b   Archambault, Éric ^a,c   Gingras, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Science Metrix   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

CITED LITERATURE; ONLINE PREPRINT ARCHIVES; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STEADY-STATE DYNAMICS;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 38849184086     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20744     Document Type: Article

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