Authors' sources of information: A new dimension in information scattering

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 505-521

  Bigdeli, Zahed ^a   Gazni, Ali ^a,b  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^b Islamic World Science Citation Center ISC   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bradford's law; Browsing; Information scattering; Scholarly information seeking behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865491185     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0609-1     Document Type: Article

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