Scientific quality of original research articles on environmental tobacco smoke

Tobacco Control

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-26

  Barnes, Deborah E ^a   Bero, Lisa A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental tobacco smoke; Peer review; Quality assessment; Symposium proceedings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ORGANIZATION; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

CONGRESSES; HUMANS; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031088960     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.6.1.19     Document Type: Article

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