A comparative analysis of social sciences citation tools

Online Information Review

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 986-996

  Levine Clark, Michael ^a   Gil, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Software tools

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES; SOFTWARE TOOL; WEB OF SCIENCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TECHNICAL WRITING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 74549175936     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520911001954     Document Type: Article

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