Interestingness and the essence of citation

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 580-589

  Liu, Yuxian ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Authorship; Citation analysis; Cognitive process; Essence of citations; Interaction of perspectives; Interestingness of a phenomenon; Sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880641366     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-07-2012-0082     Document Type: Article

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