Chemical Bibliographic Databases: The Influence of Term Indexing Policies on Topic Searches
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How many articles can we retrieve from a topic search in chemical bibliographic databases?
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- Authors
- Niel, G., Boyrie, F., & Virieux, D.
- Affiliations
- École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Niel, Gilles
- Venue
- New Journal of Chemistry
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 8807-8817
- ISSN
- 0398-9836 (ISSN-L)
- 1144-0546
- 1369-9261
- OpenAlex
- W1924992767
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 0.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- New Journal of Chemistry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- topic search, search effectiveness, chemical information retrieval, controlled vocabulary
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