The distribution of Web citations

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 779-790

  Yang, Siluo ^a   Han, Ruizhen ^a   Ding, Jingda ^b   Song, Yanfei ^b  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Citation distribution; Power law; Web academic resource; Web citation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PAPER; ACADEMIC RESOURCES; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; DATA SETS; MEDICAL SCIENCE; MEDLINE; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINES; POWER LAW; SITE TYPES; WEB CITATIONS; WEB RESOURCES;

MEDICINE;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84861233866     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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