The citation impact of Open Access agricultural research: A comparison between OA and non-OA publications

Online Information Review

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 772-785

  Kousha, Kayvan ^a   Abdoli, Mahshid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b National Library and Archive of Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agricultural; Archiving; Electronic publishing; Open systems; Research

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; ARCHIVING; CITATION IMPACT; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; IMPACT FACTOR; INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATIONS; JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS; OPEN ACCESS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCOPUS DATABASE; UNITED NATIONS;

AGRICULTURE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

RESEARCH;

EID: 79551476771     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011084618     Document Type: Article

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