Downloads vs. citations in economics: Relationships, contributing factors and beyond

Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 207-215

  Chu, Heting ^a   Krichel, Thomas ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citations; Digital libraries; Downloads; Google Scholar; Usage analysis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

CITATIONS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DOWNLOADS; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; USAGE ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 77952034760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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