Is the impact of journal impact factors decreasing?

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-192

  Reedijk, Jan ^a   Moed, Henk F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electronic journals; Information retrieval; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549134696     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410810858001     Document Type: Article

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