Where you publish matters most: A multilevel analysis of factors affecting citations of internet studies

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1789-1803

  Peng, Tai Quan ^a   Zhu, Jonathan J H ^b  

^a MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

bibliographic citations; hierarchical models; Internet

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS; CITATION INDEX; EXPLANATORY POWER; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL MODEL; NORMATIVE THEORY; RESEARCH STRATEGY;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865219005     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22649     Document Type: Article

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