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Martín-Martín, A.; Orduña Malea, E.; Ayllon, JM.; Delgado-López-Cózar, E. (2016). Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant. Scientometrics. 107(3):1477-1487. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-1917-2

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Title: Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant
Author: Martín-Martín, Alberto Orduña Malea, Enrique Ayllon, Juan M. Delgado-López-Cózar, Emilio
UPV Unit: Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Diseño para la Fabricación y Producción Automatizada - Institut de Disseny per a la Fabricació i Producció Automatitzada
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Abstract:
A study released by the Google Scholar team found an apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24 years (1990-2013). To demonstrate this finding we conducted a complementary ...[+]
Subjects: Google Scholar , Journal Citation Reports , Growth of science , Science obsolescence , Half-life indicator , Academic search engines
Copyrigths: Reserva de todos los derechos
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Scientometrics. (issn: 0138-9130 )
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1917-2
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Springer
Akadémiai Kiadó
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/
Type: Artículo

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