Are scholarly articles disproportionately read in their own country? An analysis of mendeley readers

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1124-1135

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Maflahi, Nabeil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; RESEARCH FUNDING; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES; WEB OF SCIENCE;

MEDICINE;

EID: 84930684371     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23252     Document Type: Article

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