Author-level eigenfactor metrics: Evaluating the influence of authors, institutions, and countries within the social science research network community

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 787-801

  West, Jevin D ^a   Jensen, Michael C ^b,c   Dandrea, Ralph J ^d   Gordon, Gregory J ^c   Bergstrom, Carl T ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c C/o Social Sciences Research Network ^*  (United States)

^d ITX Corporation   (United States)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION DATA; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH;

RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84876670748     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22790     Document Type: Article

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