Drivers of higher education institutions' visibility: A study of UK HEIs social media use vs. organizational characteristics

Proceedings of ISSI 2015 Istanbul: 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 502-513

  Birkholz, Julie M ^a   Seeber, Marco ^a   Holmberg, Kim ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVER TRAINING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VISIBILITY;

HIGHER EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; SCIENTOMETRICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84991080775     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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