How are new citation-based journal indicators adding to the bibliometric toolbox?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1327-1336

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRALITY MEASURES; CITATION NETWORKS; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNAL RANKINGS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NEW DIMENSIONS; PAGERANK; TWO-DIMENSION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 66749148818     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21024     Document Type: Article

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