Towards a “Book Publishers Citation Reports”. First approach using the “ Book Citation Index”
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Towards a Book Publishers Citation Reports. First approach using the Book Citation Index
the absence of books and book chapters in the Web of Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI and A&HCI) has always been considered an important flaw but the Thomson Reuters 'Book Citation Index' database was finally available in October of 2010 indexing 29,618 books and 379,082 book chapters. The Book Citation Index opens a new window of opportunities for analyzing these fields from a bibliometric ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista española de Documentación Científica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1988-4621,0210-0614
DOI: 10.3989/redc.2012.4.1010