International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1770-1783

  Sin, Sei Ching Joanna ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION IMPACT; COAUTHORSHIP; EAST ASIA; INCOME LEVELS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; JOURNAL TITLES; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MATTHEW EFFECTS; NORTH AMERICAN; SCIENTOMETRICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PAPER;

EID: 80051670710     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21572     Document Type: Article

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