Weak evidence for determinants of citation frequency in ecological articles

Scientometrics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Padial, André Andrian ^a,b   Nabout, João Carlos ^a   Siqueira, Tadeu ^a,c   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^a   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b Science and Technology of Mato Grosso do Sul Campus Campo Grande   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biases; Citation frequency; Ecological articles; Merit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951813295     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0231-7     Document Type: Article

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