Geographic variation in social media metrics: An analysis of Latin American journal articles

Aslib Journal of Information Management

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 289-304

  Alperin, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Latin America; Metrics; Scholarly publishing; SciELO; Social media

Indexed keywords

PUBLISHING;

ALTMETRICS; LATIN AMERICA; METRICS; SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; SCIELO; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84929677573     PISSN: 20503806     EISSN: 20503814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-12-2014-0176     Document Type: Article

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