Impact fever: What is it all about?

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Courtney, Mary ^a   Jones, Jackie ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NURSING; PUBLICATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; NURSING; PERIODICALS;

EID: 33747142776     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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