Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant

Scientometrics

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1477-1487

  Martín Martín, Alberto ^a   Orduna Malea, Enrique ^b   Ayllón, Juan M ^a   Delgado López Cózar, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic search engines; Google Scholar; Growth of science; Half life indicator; Journal Citation Reports; Science obsolescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961216656     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1917-2     Document Type: Letter

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