Parallel worlds of citable documents and others:Inflated commissioned opinion articles enhance scientometric indicators

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 635-643

  Heneberg, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICINE;

BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL; CITATION ANALYSIS; GENERAL SCIENCE; IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL SCIENCE; NEW ENGLAND; SCIENTOMETRICS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84900479403     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22997     Document Type: Article

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