How Are Academic Age, Productivity and Collaboration Related to Citing Behavior of Researchers?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Milojević, Staša ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BEHAVIOR; BIBLIOMETRICS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REFERENCE VALUE; ROBOTICS; SCIENTIST;

AGE FACTORS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84868686738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049176     Document Type: Article

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