Where credit is due: Assessing the visibility of articles published in Gender & Society with Google Scholar

Gender and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 817-832

  Jacobs, Jerry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Mass communications; Media; Method; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449355035     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243209351029     Document Type: Article

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