Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database: Administrative health care database as study object in bibliometrics

Scientometrics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 365-380

  Chen, Yu Chun ^a   Yeh, Hsiao Yun ^b   Wu, Jau Ching ^b,c   Haschler, Ingo ^a   Chen, Tzeng Ji ^b,c   Wetter, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Administrative health care database; Bibliometric analysis; Knowledge growth; National Health Insurance Research Database

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650989464     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0289-2     Document Type: Article

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