Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1832-1846

  Mohammadi, Ehsan ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a   Haustein, Stefanie ^b   Larivière, Vincent ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

scientometrics; webometrics

Indexed keywords

MEDICINE; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

CITATION IMPACT; CLINICAL MEDICINE; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS; SCIENTOMETRICS; SUB-DISCIPLINES; WEBOMETRICS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84923280319     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23286     Document Type: Article

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