Counting citations in the field of business and management: Why use Google Scholar rather than the Web of Science

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 553-581

  Amara, Nabil ^a   Landry, Réjean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business scholars; Citations; Contributions record; Google Scholar; h index; ISI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869162461     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0729-2     Document Type: Article

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