An international comparison of journal publishing and citing behaviours

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 516-531

  Didegah, Fereshteh ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a   Gazni, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Research Affairs of ISC   (Iran)

Author keywords

Citing behaviour; Publishing behaviour; Research collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861012114     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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