Ranking top economics and finance journals using microsoft academic search versus google scholar: How does the new publish or perish option compare?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1079-1084

  Haley, M Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SEARCH ENGINES;

ACADEMIC SEARCH; DATABASE SEARCHES; G INDICES; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; MICROSOFT; PUBLISH OR PERISH; RANK CORRELATION; TIME FRAME;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901491647     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23080     Document Type: Article

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