Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: Edited books, book series and publisher types in the book citation index

Scientometrics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2113-2127

  Torres Salinas, Daniel ^a   Robinson García, Nicolás ^b   Cabezas Clavijo, Álvaro ^b   Jiménez Contreras, Evaristo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Book citation index; Databases; Highly cited; Monographs; Publishers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897573089     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1168-4     Document Type: Article

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