A proposal for topic-based impact factors and their application to occupational health literature

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 248-253

  Uehara, Masamichi ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a,b   Hoshuyama, Tsutomu ^a   Tanaka, Chieko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Impact Factor; Journalology; Occupational health

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLICATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; MEDLINE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERIODICALS;

EID: 0041471025     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.45.248     Document Type: Note

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