Effective strategies for increasing citation frequency

International Education Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 93-99

  Ebrahim, Nader Ale ^a   Salehi, Hadi ^b   Embi, Mohamed Amin ^c   Tanha, Farid Habibi ^d   Gholizadeh, Hossein ^a   Motahar, Seyed Mohammad ^c   Ordi, Ali ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d University of Economic Sciences   (Iran)

^e MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Citation frequency; H index; Improve citation; Open access; Research impact; University ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886790522     PISSN: 19139020     EISSN: 19139039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93     Document Type: Article

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