Journals as retention mechanisms of scientific growth

Authors
Publication date 2008
Journal Research Trends
Pages (from-to) 6-7
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
Abstract Professor Loet Leydesdorff has spent the last 20 years developing an idea first posed by Derek de Solla Price in 1961. He asks whether the aggregated citation relations among journals can be used to study clusters of journals as representations of the intellectual organization of the sciences.
Document type Article
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