What lies behind the averages and significance of citation indicators in different disciplines?

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-382

  Lancho Barrantes, Bárbara S ^a   Guerrero Bote, Vicente P ^a   Moya Anegón, Félix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation indicators; Scientific indicators

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; IMPACT FACTOR; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE LIST; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; THOMSON;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 77952985146     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551510366077     Document Type: Article

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