How far does scientific community look back?

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 562-568

  Wang, Xianwen ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Mao, Wenli ^a   Liu, Chen ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Altmertics; Article usage; Download; Dynamic usage data; Lifetime of scientific literature; Static usage data

Indexed keywords

PAPER;

ALTMERTICS; ARTICLE USAGE; DOWNLOAD; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; USAGE DATA;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84900517925     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.04.009     Document Type: Article

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