Non-English journals and papers in physics: Bias in citations?

Proceedings of ISSI 2011 - 13th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 463-473

  Liang, Liming ^a,b   Rousseau, Ronald ^c,d   Zhong, Zhen ^b  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA-SOURCE; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; PRECISE DEFINITION; SUBFIELDS; WEB OF KNOWLEDGE;

PAPER;

EID: 84874792908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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