International coauthorship relations in the Social Sciences Citation Index: Is internationalization leading the Network?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2111-2126

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b   Wagner, Caroline ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation; social sciences

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION THEORY;

AFRICAN NATIONS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; EVALUATION; INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS; NETWORK PARAMETERS; NETWORK STATISTICS; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84902000769     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23102     Document Type: Article

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