Are elite journals declining

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 649-655

  Larivière, Vincent ^a,b   Lozano, George A ^c   Gingras, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Estonian Centre of Evolutionary Ecology   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITED PAPERS; CONSTANT FLUXES; KNOW-THAT; RELATIVE POSITIONS;

PAPER;

EID: 84899625144     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23005     Document Type: Article

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