Power-law link strength distribution in paper cocitation networks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1480-1489

  Zhao, Star X ^a   Ye, Fred Y ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

information flow; information policy; international aspects; sociocultural aspects; technology impact

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGY IMPACT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84878592466     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22846     Document Type: Article

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