The Google effect in doctoral theses

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 785-793

  Varshney, Lav R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation behavior; Doctoral theses; Knowledge burden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865463274     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0654-4     Document Type: Article

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