Current use of medical eponyms-a need for global uniformity in scientific publications

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Jana, Narayan ^a   Barik, Sukumar ^b   Arora, Nalini ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b West Bank Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARD;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DOWN SYNDROME; EPONYMS; HUMANS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 64649100408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-18     Document Type: Article

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