Growth rates of modern science: A bibliometric analysis based on the number of publications and cited references

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2215-2222

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Mutz, Rüdiger ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRICS; GROWTH OF SCIENCE; HISTORY OF SCIENCE; SEGMENTED REGRESSIONS; SPECIFIC SEGMENTS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WEB OF SCIENCE;

PUBLISHING;

GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH SCIENCE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PUBLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 84950287834     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23329     Document Type: Article

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