Journal impact factors: What do they mean for public health? [1]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 581-582

  Smith, Derek R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AUSTRALIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 38349041747     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00148.x     Document Type: Letter

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