International visibility of Iranian ISI journals: A citation study

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 407-419

  Davarpana, Mohammad Reza ^a   Behrouzfar, H ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Generation and dissemination of information; Iran; Sciences; Serials

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GENERATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION; IMPACT FACTOR; INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATIONS; IRAN; PUBLICATION RATES; RANDOM SAMPLE; RESEARCH PAPERS; SCIENCES; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; SERIALS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; RESEARCH; VISIBILITY;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 70349814053     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530910973802     Document Type: Article

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