Predictive effects of structural variation on citation counts

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 431-449

  Chen, Chaomei ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CRITICAL PARTS; INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURES; MAIN EFFECT; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC PAPERS; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84857645289     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21694     Document Type: Article

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