Articles by Latin American authors in prestigious journals have fewer citations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Meneghini, Rogerio ^a,b   Packer, Abel L ^a,b   Nassi Calò, Lilian ^a  

^a BIREME PAHO WHO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; BRAZIL; CHILE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FRANCE; GERMANY; JAPAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEXICO; PUBLISHING; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; COOPERATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LATIN AMERICA; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 57049185249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003804     Document Type: Article

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