Usage patterns of scholarly articles on Web of Science: a study on Web of Science usage count

Scientometrics

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 917-926

  Wang, Xianwen ^a   Fang, Zhichao ^a   Sun, Xiaoling ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Article usage; Usage count; Usage metrics; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981156292     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2093-0     Document Type: Article

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