Can the impact of scholarly images be assessed online? An exploratory study using image identification technology

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1734-1744

  Kousha, Kayvan ^a,b   Thelwall, Mike ^b   Rezaie, Somayeh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS; DIGITAL PICTURE; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; IMAGE CONTENT; IMAGE IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE INDEXING; KNOW-HOW; SCIENTIFIC IMAGES; USE STATISTICS;

NASA; SEARCH ENGINES; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77956386547     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21370     Document Type: Article

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