Opportunities for and limitations of the Book Citation Index

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1388-1398

  Gorraiz, Juan ^a   Purnell, Philip J ^b   Glänzel, Wolfgang ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b THOMSON REUTERS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d LHAS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; citation analysis; databases

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS INFORMATIONS; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; COVERAGE ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84878539515     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22875     Document Type: Article

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