Measuring the usage of e-research infrastructure as an indicator of research activity

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1374-1382

  Jonkers, Koen ^a   De Moya Anegon, Felix ^a   Aguillo, Isidro F ^a  

^a The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; webometrics

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; E-RESEARCH; GERMANY; IN-FIELD; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH ORGANIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRTUAL RESEARCH; WEB LINKS; WEB SERVERS; WEB USAGE MINING; WEBOMETRICS;

BIOINFORMATICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84862297369     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22681     Document Type: Article

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