Psychiatry and the hirsch h-index: The relationship between journal impact factors and accrued citations

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 207-219

  Hunt, Glenn E ^a,b   Cleary, Michelle ^c   Walter, Garry ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Geriatric Medicine   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citations; H index; Journal impact factor; Psychiatry journals

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; WEB BROWSER; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954408564     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2010.493742     Document Type: Review

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