Early social science research about Big Data

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 65-74

  Youtie, Jan ^a   Porter, Alan L ^a,b   Huang, Ying ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Search Technology Inc   (United States)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Big Data; Cited references; Social science

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DATA SET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

EID: 85019951943     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scw021     Document Type: Article

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