Systematic differences in impact across publication tracks at PNAS

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Rand, David G ^a,b   Pfeiffer, Thomas ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CITATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION; PUBLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (U.S.); PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949424234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008092     Document Type: Article

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