Tracking historical papers and their citations

European Science Editing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 35-37

  Marx, Werner ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Errors; Historical papers; Literature search; Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871336097     PISSN: 02583127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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