The role of online videos in research communication: A content analysis of YouTube videos cited in academic publications

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1710-1727

  Kousha, Kayvan ^a,b   Thelwall, Mike ^a   Abdoli, Mahshid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c National Library and Archive of Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

citation analysis; digital video files; webometrics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS; ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DIGITAL VIDEOS; HEALTH SCIENCE; INNOVATIVE RESEARCH; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE VIDEO; RESEARCH COMMUNICATION; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION; WEBOMETRICS; YOUTUBE;

COMMUNICATION; HISTORY; MEDICINE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; WEBSITES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84865239510     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22717     Document Type: Article

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