Worldwide trends in quantity and quality of published articles in the field of infectious diseases

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bliziotis, Ioannis A ^a,b   Paraschakis, Konstantinos ^b   Vergidis, Paschalis I ^b   Karavasiou, Antonia I ^b   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,b,c  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b Alfa HealthCare   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GEOGRAPHY; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 25444488045     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-16     Document Type: Article

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