Institutional interactions: Exploring social, cognitive, and geographic relationships between institutions as demonstrated through citation networks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1498-1514

  Yan, Erjia ^a   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION NETWORKS; COLLABORATION NETWORK; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; GEOGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; LINEAR MODEL; POLICY MAKERS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 79960324978     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21556     Document Type: Article

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