Coverage, field specialisation and the impact of scientific publishers indexed in the Book Citation Index

Online Information Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-42

  Torres Salinas, Daniel ^a   Robinson Garcia, Nicolas ^b   Campanario, Juan Miguel ^c   López Cózar, Emilio Delgado ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Book Citation Index; Citation analysis; Databases; Monographs; Publishers; Thomson Reuters

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION INDEX; MONOGRAPHS; PUBLISHERS; REUTERS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84891046994     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-10-2012-0169     Document Type: Article

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