Scholarly impact measurements of LIS open access journals: Based on citations and links

Electronic Library

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 682-697

  Yuan, Shunbo ^a   Hua, Weina ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIAXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Library and information networks; Open access; Scholarly impact measurement; Web link analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055076041     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640471111177107     Document Type: Article

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