Does the impact factor have too much impact?

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 226-228

  Flisher, Alan J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EDITORIAL; IMPACT FACTOR; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLISHING;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 68149115825     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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