In their own image? a comparison of doctoral students' and faculty members' referencing behavior

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1045-1054

  Larivière, Vincent ^a,b   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^c   Bergeron, Pierrette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; FACULTY MEMBERS; HEALTH RESEARCH; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; JOURNAL ARTICLES; LARGE CORPORA; RESEARCH JOURNALS; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84876285405     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22797     Document Type: Article

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