Top-cited articles in environmental sciences: Merits and demerits of citation analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 431, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-127

  Khan, Moonis Ali ^a   Ho, Yuh Shan ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Article life; Bibliometric; Impact; Journal Citation Report; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE LIFE; BIBLIOMETRIC; IMPACT; JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING; WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BIBLIOGRAPHY; DATABASE; EARTH SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 84861827457     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.035     Document Type: Article

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