Surviving bad times: The role of citations, self-citations and numbers of citable items in recovery of the journal impact factor after at least four years of continuous decreases

Scientometrics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 859-864

  Campanario, Juan Miguel ^a   Molina, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

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EID: 77956616867     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2257-7     Document Type: Article

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