Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1856-1860

  Zitt, Michel ^a,b   Small, Henry ^c  

^a LERECO   (France)

^b Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques OST   (France)

^c THOMSON REUTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT FACTOR; IMPACT FACTORS; THOMSON;

RADIO;

EID: 51049099177     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20880     Document Type: Article

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