Reliability of journal impact factor rankings

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Greenwood, Darren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RELIABILITY; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 38349051207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-7-48     Document Type: Article

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