Problems of citation analysis: A critical review

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 342-349

  MacRoberts, Michael H ^a   MacRoberts, Barbara R ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 84989591524     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: 10974571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198909)40:5<342::AID-ASI7>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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