Integrative approach to quality assessment of medical journals using impact factor, Eigenfactor, and Article influence scores

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Rizkallah, Jacques ^a   Sin, Don D ^a  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTICLE INFLUENCE SCORE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSUMER; EIGENFACTOR SCORE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; STANDARD;

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956307389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010204     Document Type: Article

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