Combining commercial citation indexes and open-access bibliographic databases to delimit highly interdisciplinary research fields for citation analysis

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 194-200

  Strotmann, Andreas ^a   Zhao, Dangzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Field delimitation; Information science; Multiple databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649233985     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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