Assessing the scholarly impact of information studies: A tale of two citation databases-Scopus and Web of Science

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2499-2508

  Meho, Lokman I ^a   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACULTY MEMBERS; FIELD FOCUSING; RESEARCH DOMAINS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 72449152908     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21165     Document Type: Article

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