Policy-Relevant webometrics for individual scientific fields

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1464-1475

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Klitkou, Antje ^b   Verbeek, Arnold ^c   Stuart, David ^a   Vincent, Celine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

^c Box 16   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; KNOWLEDGE FLOW; MUTUAL AWARENESS; PEER REVIEW; PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH FUNDING; RESEARCH ORGANIZATION; RESEARCH POLICIES; RESEARCH PROCESS; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; WEB PORTAL; WEBOMETRICS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77954039636     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21345     Document Type: Article

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