Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

Collection Building

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 155-162

  Erfanmanesh, Mohammadamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

CiteScore; Journal quality; Non open access journals; Open access journals; Scopus; SJR

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029878030     PISSN: 01604953     EISSN: 20545592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CB-02-2017-0007     Document Type: Article

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