Letter to the editor: On the conceptualisation and theorisation of the impact caused by publications

Scientometrics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1145-1148

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Bibliometrics; Theory of citing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027943602     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1588-4     Document Type: Article

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