A taxonomy of motives to cite

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 625-637

  Erikson, Martin G ^a   Erlandson, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Citations; Citing behavior; Library and information sciences; Scientific communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; MOTIVATION; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; MOTIVATION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84907734707     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312714522871     Document Type: Article

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