Coverage and overlap of the new social sciences and humanities journal lists

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-294

  Hicks, Diana ^a   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURATION; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 78951485806     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21458     Document Type: Article

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