Research output availability on academic social networks: implications for stakeholders in academic publishing

Electronic Markets

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 125-133

  Laakso, Mikael ^a   Lindman, Juho ^a   Shen, Cenyu ^a   Nyman, Linus ^a   Björk, Bo Christer ^a  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Academia.edu; Academic social networks; Open access; ResearchGate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009171191     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-016-0242-1     Document Type: Article

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