Plastic surgery classics: Characteristics of 50 top-cited articles in four plastic surgery journals since 1946

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Loonen, Martijn P J ^b   Hage, J Joris ^a   Kon, Moshe ^b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EUROPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SURGERY, PLASTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43149096478     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816b13a9     Document Type: Article

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