Journal impact factors: Implications for the nursing profession: Original article

International Nursing Review

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-40

  Johnstone, Megan Jane ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Journal Impact Factors; Nursing; Publishing; Research; Scholarship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LANGUAGE; NURSING; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARD;

JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; LANGUAGE; NURSING; PERIODICALS;

EID: 33847030729     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2007.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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