Level of evidence and citation index in current neurosurgical publications

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 257-261

  Rothoerl, Ralf D ^a   Klier, Joerg ^a   Woertgen, Chris ^a   Brawanski, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citation index; Evidence based medicine; Literature review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; PERIODICALS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0141892107     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-003-0270-0     Document Type: Article

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