Scientific communities as autopoietic systems: The reproductive function of citations

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1442-1453

  Riviera, Emanuela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

citation analysis; scientometrics; sociology

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES; REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTOMETRICS; SOCIOLOGY; STRUCTURATION THEORY;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878573722     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22826     Document Type: Article

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