The effect of citations on the significance of decimal places in the computation of journal impact factors

Scientometrics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-298

  Campanario, Juan Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Journal citation report; Journal impact factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897971822     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1206-2     Document Type: Article

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