Referencing patterns of individual researchers: Do top scientists rely on more extensive information sources?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2433-2450

  Costas, Rodrigo ^a   Van Leeuwen, Thed N ^a   Bordons, María ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; citation analysis; information use

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; HIGH IMPACT; IMPACT FACTOR; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION SOURCES; MULTI VARIABLES; REFERENCE LIST; SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE; WEB OF SCIENCE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PAPER; RESEARCH;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870539441     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22662     Document Type: Article

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