Lifting the fog of scientometric research artifacts: On the scientometric analysis of environmental tobacco smoke research.
Previous analyses identified research on environmental tobacco smoke to be subject to strong fluctuations as measured by both quantitative and qualitative indicators. The evolution of search algorithms (based on the Web of Science and Web of Knowledge database platforms) was used to show the impact...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 334 - 345 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2013
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