The relationship between quality of research and citation frequency

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nieminen, Pentti ^a,b   Carpenter, James ^b   Rucker, Gerta ^b   Schumacher, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PSYCHIATRY; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748886135     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-42     Document Type: Review

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