The spread of scientific information: Insights from the web usage statistics in PLoS article-level metrics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Yan, Koon Kiu ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MARKETING; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WEB BROWSER; BIBLIOMETRICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79956089024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019917     Document Type: Article

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