Commentary: The 'bibliographic impact factor' and the still uncharted sociology of epidemiology

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1130-1135

  Porta, Miquel ^a,b,c   Fernandez, Esteve ^d,e   Bolúmar, Francisco ^f  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c IL   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCISEARCH;

EID: 33750201012     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl196     Document Type: Note

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