High-ranked social science journal articles can be identified from early citation information

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Stern, David I ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION; POLITICS; PREDICTION; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84911465193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112520     Document Type: Article

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