Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 680-687

  Sagi, Itay ^a   Yechiam, Eldad ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Humor; Research evaluation; Writing style

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; HUMOR; RESEARCH EVALUATION; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; WRITING STYLE;

STANDARDS;

EID: 51849092754     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507086261     Document Type: Article

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