The delicate topic of the impact factor

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 925-927

  Kirchhof, B ^a   Bornfeld, N ^b   Grehn, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b German Society of Ophthalmology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 35748960283     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0618-1     Document Type: Editorial

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