Web of Science and Scopus: A journal title overlap study

Online Information Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-21

  Gavel, Ylva ^a   Iselid, Lars ^b  

^a Karolinska Institutet   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Databases; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

JOURNAL TITLE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 40249087429     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810865958     Document Type: Article

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