Do blog citations correlate with a higher number of future citations? Research blogs as a potential source for alternative metrics

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1018-1027

  Shema, Hadas ^a   Bar Ilan, Judit ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES; IMPACT INDEX; JOURNAL ARTICLES; METRIC SOURCES; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

BLOGS;

EID: 84901502237     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23037     Document Type: Article

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