The delineation of an interdisciplinary specialty in terms of a journal set: the case of communication studies

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1709-1718

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Probst, Carole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; FUZZY CHARACTERS; MATRIX; POLITICAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67650885799     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21052     Document Type: Article

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