Where are citations located in the body of scientific articles? A study of the distributions of citation locations

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 887-896

  Hu, Zhigang ^a,b   Chen, Chaomei ^a,b,c   Liu, Zeyuan ^a,b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation location; Distribution of citations; Full text analysis; Structure of scientific articles

Indexed keywords

CITATION DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION OF CITATIONS; FULL TEXT ANALYSIS; H INDICES; HIGHLY-CITED PAPERS; INFORMETRICS; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84883821106     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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