Placing articles in the large publisher nations: Is there a "free lunch" in terms of higher impact?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 596-611

  Schubert, Torben ^a,b   Michels, Carolin ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

socioeconomic activities

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; MATTHEW EFFECTS; NETHERLANDS; PANEL DATA; SIMULATION MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC ACTIVITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84874271589     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22759     Document Type: Article

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