A visual analytic study of retracted articles in scientific literature

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 234-253

  Chen, Chaomei ^a   Hu, Zhigang ^b   Milbank, Jared ^c   Schultz, Timothy ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

content analysis; information filtering; visualization (electronic)

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING;

CO-CITATION NETWORKS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL THREATS; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SELF-CORRECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84872967441     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22755     Document Type: Article

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