Why is a new Journal of Informetrics needed?

Cybermetrics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Mayr, Philipp ^a   Umstätter, Walther ^b  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bradford's law of scattering; Informetrics; LISA database; New journal

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649098427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11375019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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