A multidimensional approach to evaluating management journals: Refining pagerank via the differentiation of citation types and identifying the roles that management journals play

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2581-2591

  Cheang, Brenda ^a,b   Chu, Samuel Kai Wah ^b   Li, Chongshou ^c   Lim, Andrew ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

citation analysis; impact factor

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION TYPES; IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS; MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; MANAGEMENT REVIEW; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL EVALUATIONS; PAGE RANKS; THOMSON;

EID: 84904191059     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23133     Document Type: Article

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