Factors affecting citation rates of research articles

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 739-764

  Onodera, Natsuo ^a   Yoshikane, Fuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; EXTRINSIC FACTORS; GENERAL TRENDS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; PRICE INDEX;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLISHING; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84924998890     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23209     Document Type: Article

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