Marketing data: Has the rise of impact factor led to the fall of objective language in the scientific article?

Respiratory Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fraser, Véronique J ^a   Martin, James G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MARKETING; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STANDARD;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDITORIAL POLICIES; LANGUAGE; MARKETING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 70249103176     PISSN: 14659921     EISSN: 1465993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-10-35     Document Type: Note

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