LIS journals scientific impact and subject categorization: A comparison between Web of Science and Scopus

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 721-740

  Abrizah, A ^a,b   Zainab, A N ^a,b   Kiran, K ^a   Raj, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Ministry of Higher Education   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Journal impact; Journal ranking; Journal studies; Library and Information Science; Rank normalized impact factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872489210     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0813-7     Document Type: Article

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