On the relationship between interdisciplinary and scientific impact

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-131

  Larivière, Vincent ^a   Gingras, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

CITATION SCORE; HIGH IMPACT; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; WEB OF SCIENCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 72849143497     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21226     Document Type: Article

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