An indicator of research front activity: Measuring intellectual organization as uncertainty reduction in document sets

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2488-2498

  Lucio Arias, Diana ^a   Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT SETS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; RESEARCH FRONT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTOMETRICS; SEQUENCE NUMBER; TEST CASE; THREE DIMENSIONS; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION;

FULLERENES; TECHNICAL WRITING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 72449205997     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21199     Document Type: Article

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