Can we rank scholarly book publishers? A bibliometric experiment with the field of history.
This is a publisher ranking study based on a citation data grant from Elsevier, specifically, book titles cited in Scopus history journals (2007-2011) and matching metadata from WorldCat® (i.e., OCLC numbers, ISBN codes, publisher records, and library holding counts). Using both resources, we have c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology Vol. 66; no. 7; pp. 1333 - 1348 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2015
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