What motivates authors of scholarly articles? The importance of journal attributes and potential audience on publication choice

Publications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Tenopir, Carol ^a   Dalton, Elizabeth ^a   Fish, Allison ^b   Christian, Lisa ^a   Jones, Misty ^a   Smith, Mackenzie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Journals; Open access; Publishing; Scholarly communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008963591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23046775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/publications4030022     Document Type: Article

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