Can the impact of non-Western academic books be measured? An investigation of Google Books and Google Scholar for Malaysia

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2498-2508

  Abrizah, A ^a,b   Thelwall, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Institut Aminuddin Baki Ministry of Education Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

publishing; webometrics

Indexed keywords

PUBLISHING;

GOOGLE SCHOLAR; HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE; MALAYSIA; PEER REVIEW; UNIVERSITY PRESS; WEBOMETRICS; WESTERN COUNTRIES;

REVIEWS;

EID: 84938525930     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23145     Document Type: Article

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