Of Nobel class: A citation perspective on high impact research authors

Theoretical Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 117-135

  Garfield, Eugene ^a   Welljams Dorof, Alfred ^a  

^a Institute for Scientific Information   (United States)

Author keywords

citation analysis; citation impact; Nobel prize; Science Citation Index; scientometrics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; REWARD;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; BIBLIOMETRICS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EFFICIENCY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; NOBEL PRIZE; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0026732772     PISSN: 01679902     EISSN: 15731200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02163625     Document Type: Article

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