Randomized clinical trials in implant therapy: Relationships among methodological, statistical, clinical, paratextual features and number of citations

Clinical Oral Implants Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 419-431

  Nieri, Michele ^a   Clauser, Carlo ^b   Franceschi, Debora ^a   Pagliaro, Umberto ^b   Saletta, Daniele ^b   Pini Prato, Giovanpaolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical features; Dental implants; Methodological features; Paratextual features; Randomized clinical trials; Science citation index; Statistical features

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIBLIOMETRICS; DENTAL RESEARCH; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH IMPLANTATION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34547361065     PISSN: 09057161     EISSN: 16000501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0501.2007.01350.x     Document Type: Article

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