Applied informetrics for digital libraries: An overview of foundations, problems and current approaches

Historical Social Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 267-281

  Schaer, Philipp ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bradford's Law; Co occurrence analysis; Digital libraries; Information retrieval; Informetrics; Lotka's Law; Power Law; Zipf's Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979837508     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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