A small world of citations? the influence of collaboration networks on citation practices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Wallace, Matthew L ^a   Larivière, Vincent ^a,b,c   Gingras, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT SELF CITATION; ECONOMICS; HISTORY; METEOROLOGY; NEUROLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PRACTICE ACT; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLICATION; REFERENCE DATABASE; REVIEW; SELF CITATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOLOGY; WRITING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; HUMAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTHORSHIP; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 84857876892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033339     Document Type: Review

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