The impact factors of open access and subscription journals across fields

Current Science

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 380-388

  Gunasekaran, Subbiah ^a   Arunachalam, Subbiah ^b  

^a CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Centre for Internet and Society   (India)

Author keywords

Impact factor; Normalized impact factor; Open access journals; Rank normalized impact factor; Subscription journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905903287     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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