Using search engine count estimates as indicators of academic impact: A web-based replication of Haggbloom et al.'s (2002) study

Open Psychology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 12-18

  Spörrle, Matthias ^a   Tumasjan, Andranik ^b  

^a University of Applied Management (UAM)   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impact; Internet; Psychologist; Scientific eminence; Scientometrics; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051926167     PISSN: 18743501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101104010012     Document Type: Article

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