Book reviews in humanities research evaluations

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1979-1991

  Zuccala, Alesia ^a   Van Leeuwen, Thed ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMANITIES COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BIBLIOMETRIC; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HUMANITIES RESEARCH; JOURNAL QUALITY; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH OUTPUTS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; WEB OF SCIENCE;

REVIEWS;

EID: 84867010385     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21588     Document Type: Article

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