Disciplinary knowledge production and diffusion in science

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2223-2245

  Yan, Erjia ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

informetrics

Indexed keywords

CITATION NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; INFORMETRICS; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SHANNON ENTROPY; TRADING PRACTICES; UNIT OF ANALYSIS;

COMMERCE;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DIFFUSION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTROPY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SCOPUS;

EID: 84983362318     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23541     Document Type: Article

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