On the causes of subject-specific citation rates in Web of Science

Scientometrics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1823-1827

  Marx, Werner ^a   Bornmann, Lutz ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Database coverage; Fraction of linked references; Humanities; Subject specific citation rates; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925537381     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1499-9     Document Type: Article

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