Evolution, continuity, and disappearance of documents on a specific topic on the Web: A longitudinal study of "informetrics"

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 980-990

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a   Peritz, Bluma C ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATASETS; INFORMATICS; RESURFACING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 4444357236     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20049     Document Type: Article

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