New journal selection for quantitative survey of infectious disease research: Application for Asian trend analysis

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Takahashi Omoe, Hiromi ^a   Omoe, Katsuhiko ^b   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINA; DATA BASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INDIA; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; TAIWAN; TREND STUDY; ASIA; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS;

ASIA; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70449338117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-67     Document Type: Article

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