Research characteristics and status on social media in China: A bibliometric and co-word analysis

Scientometrics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1167-1182

  Gan, Chunmei ^a   Wang, Weijun ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; China; Co word analysis; Research status; Research trend; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945490478     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1723-2     Document Type: Article

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