Is there a clubbing effect underlying Chinese research citation Increases?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1923-1932

  Tang, Li ^a   Shapira, Philip ^b,c   Youtie, Jan ^c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

knowledge modeling

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY;

KNOWLEDGE MODEL; NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH; POLICY IMPLICATIONS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84931278897     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23302     Document Type: Article

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