An automatic method for extracting citations from Google Books

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 309-320

  Kousha, Kayvan ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

citation analysis; experiments

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

APPROXIMATE MATCHES; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION INDEX; EXTRACTION METHOD; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; JOURNAL ARTICLES; MANUAL CHECKING;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84938676528     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23170     Document Type: Article

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