A comparative study on communication structures of chinese journals in the social sciences

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1360-1376

  Zhou, Ping ^a,b   Su, Xinning ^c   Leydesdorff, Loet ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION OF CHINA   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC FIELDS; CITATION NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; JOURNAL PUBLICATION; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIFE-SCIENCES; POLITICAL SCIENCE; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS;

NATURAL SCIENCES; TECHNICAL WRITING;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 77954044905     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21343     Document Type: Article

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