The competition for attention and the evolution of science

JASSS

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Thorngate, Warren ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Chowdhury, Wahida ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Competition; Consumption; Evolution; Information; Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355164350     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1868     Document Type: Article

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