Citation characterization and impact normalization in bioinformatics journals

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 490-497

  Huang, Hong ^a   Andrews, James ^a   Tang, Jiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS; LIFE SPAN; SUBFIELDS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 84857646709     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21707     Document Type: Article

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