Fortnightly Review: How can impact factors be improved?

BMJ

Volumn 313, Issue 7054, 1996, Pages 411-413

  Garfield, Eugene ^a  

^a Institute for Scientific Information   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 0029783235     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7054.411     Document Type: Article

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