The association between impact factors and language of general internal medicine journals

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 27-28, 2006, Pages 441-443

  Mueller, Paul S ^a   Murali, Narayana S ^a   Cha, Stephen S ^a   Erwin, Patricia J ^a   Ghosh, Amit K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Impact factor; Journals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING;

EID: 33746782941     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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