What affects citation counts in MIS research articles? An empirical investigation

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1435-1456

  Grover, Varun ^a   Raman, Roopa ^a   Stubblefield, Adam ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation; Citation counts; IS research articles; MIS research; Particularism; Particularistic attributes; Research impact; Universalism; Universalistic attributes

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CITATION; CITATION COUNTS; IS RESEARCHES; PARTICULARISM; PARTICULARISTIC ATTRIBUTES; RESEARCH IMPACTS; UNIVERSALISM; UNIVERSALISTIC ATTRIBUTES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902988260     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03474     Document Type: Article

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