Article title type and its relation with the number of downloads and citations

Scientometrics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 653-661

  Jamali, Hamid R ^a   Nikzad, Mahsa ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Iranian Research Institute for Scientific Information and Documentation   (Iran)

Author keywords

Article titles; Citation; Colon; Download; Title length

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959680636     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z     Document Type: Article

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