Time trends in the impact factor of Public Health journals

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  López Abente, Gonzalo ^a   Muñoz Tinoco, Concha ^b  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17844397986     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-24     Document Type: Article

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