The life and death of URLs in five biomedical informatics journals

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 269-273

  Carnevale, Randy J ^a   Aronsky, Dominik ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Informatics journals; References; URL

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION SERVICES; MEDICINE;

INFORMATICS JOURNALS; INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS; UNIFORM RECORD LOCATORS (URL);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICINE; DIGITALIZATION; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PERIODICALS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847269673     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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