Solo versus collaborative writing: Discrepancies in the use of tables and graphs in academic articles

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 812-820

  Cabanac, Guillaume ^a   Hubert, Gilles ^a   Hartley, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WRITING; MULTIPLE AUTHORS; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84899660637     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23014     Document Type: Article

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