Determinants of research citation impact in nanoscience and nanotechnology

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1055-1064

  Didegah, Fereshteh ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; citation analysis

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION IMPACT; IMPACT FACTOR; NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; WEB OF SCIENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NANOSCIENCE;

EID: 84876295889     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22806     Document Type: Article

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