The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations among 1,157 journals

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2414-2426

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Hammarfelt, Björn ^b   Salah, Almila ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION INDEX; COGNITIVE STRUCTURES; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATIONS; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; PANEL STRUCTURES; TOPDOWN; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

CURRICULA; VISUALIZATION;

MAPPING;

EID: 80755133629     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21636     Document Type: Article

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