Relationship between downloads and citations at journal and paper levels, and the influence of language

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1043-1065

  Guerrero Bote, Vicente P ^a   Moya Anegón, Félix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citation indicators; Download indicator; Language influence; ScienceDirect; Scientometric indicators; Scopus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893693414     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1243-5     Document Type: Article

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