Measuring co-authorship and networking-adjusted scientific impact

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CITATION ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; POWER ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 50649122701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002778     Document Type: Article

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