Effect on the journal impact factor of the number and document type of citing records: A wide-scale study

Scientometrics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-84

  Campanario, Juan Miguel ^a   Carretero, Jesús ^a   Marangon, Vera ^a   Molina, Antonio ^a   Ros, Germán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citations; Citing records; Journal impact factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952002225     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0333-2     Document Type: Article

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