Praise the bridge that carries you over: Testing the flattery citation hypothesis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 807-818

  Frandsen, Tove Faber ^a   Nicolaisen, Jeppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; COMMON STRATEGY; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; ECONOMIC REVIEW; EDITORIAL BOARD; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE;

ECONOMICS; LAKES;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 79953895433     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21503     Document Type: Article

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