Scientific datasets: Informetric characteristics and social utility metrics for biodiversity data sources

Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 107-117

  Ingwersen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodiversity datasets; Dataset usage; Power law; Rank distributions; Science communication; Social utility; Altmetrics; Usage indicators; Webometric analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930368072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54812-3_8     Document Type: Chapter

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