Bibliometric profile of top-cited single-author articles in the Science Citation Index Expanded

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 951-962

  Chuang, Kun Yang ^a   Ho, Yuh Shan ^b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bibliometric; Citations; SCI EXPANDED; Single author articles; Top cited publication; Web of science

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BIBLIOMETRIC; CITATIONS; SCI-EXPANDED; SINGLE-AUTHOR ARTICLES; TOP-CITED PUBLICATION; WEB OF SCIENCE;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84908671344     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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