ResearchGate: Disseminating, communicating, and measuring Scholarship?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 876-889

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Kousha, Kayvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; BIBLIOMETRICS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOUTH KOREA;

EDUCATION;

BRAZIL; CHINA; INDIA; PUBLICATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS;

EID: 84948765468     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23236     Document Type: Article

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