Substance without citation: Evaluating the online impact of grey literature

Scientometrics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 797-806

  Wilkinson, David ^a   Sud, Pardeep ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grey literature; Web impact; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892858164     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1068-7     Document Type: Article

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