Indicators for a webometric ranking of open access repositories

Scientometrics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-486

  Aguillo, Isidro F ^a   Ortega, José L ^b   Fernández, Mario ^a   Utrilla, Ana M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Indicators; Open access; Ranking; Repositories; Usage; Visibility; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952098120     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0183-y     Document Type: Article

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