Impact factors in urology: How well do our journals stack up against other medical and surgical journals?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-304

  Labanaris, Apostolos P ^a   Kuhn, Reinhard ^a   Schott, Günter E ^a   Zugor, Vahudin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impact factor; Publication time; Urological journals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION SERVICE; LIBRARY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UROLOGY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; PERIODICALS; UROLOGY;

EID: 34248148075     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100831     Document Type: Article

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