Testing the strength of the normative approach in citation theory through relational bibliometrics: The case of Italian sociology

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1178-1188

  Riviera, Emanuela ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

citation analysis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BIBLIOMETRIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; CO-CITATION ANALYSIS; COCITATION; NORMATIVE THEORY; SCIENTOMETRICS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84947057218     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23248     Document Type: Article

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