The positive and negative impacts, and dangers of the impact factor

Community Dental Health

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 130-134

  Scully, Crispian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; STANDARD; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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