An empirical study on the utilization of web academic resources in humanities and social sciences based on web citations

Scientometrics

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-19

  Yang, Siluo ^a   Qiu, Junping ^b   Xiong, Zunyan ^c  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Humanities and social sciences; Web citation; Web recourses; Web reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953321934     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0142-7     Document Type: Article

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