The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2140-2145

  Lozano, George A ^a,b   Larivière, Vincent ^a,c   Gingras, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Estonian Centre of Evolutionary Ecology   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; impact factor

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITED PAPERS; DIGITAL AGE; ELECTRONIC DOMAINS; IMPACT FACTOR; PAPER CITATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PAPER;

EID: 84868215130     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22731     Document Type: Article

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