Is impact factor an appropriate index to determine the level of evidence of studies on therapeutic procedures in surgery journals?;¿Es el factor de impacto un índice apropiado para determinar el grado de evidencia de estudios sobre procedimientos terapéuticos en revistas quirúrgicas?

Cirugia Espanola

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-99

  Manterola, Carlos ^a   Pineda, Viviana ^a   Vial, Manuel ^a   Losada, Héctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Impact factor; Research design methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33645460764     PISSN: 0009739X     EISSN: 1578147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-739X(05)70897-6     Document Type: Article

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