Core journals that publish clinical trials of physical therapy interventions

Physical Therapy

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1631-1640

  Costa, Leonardo Oliveira Pena ^a,b   Moseley, Anne M ^a   Sherrington, Catherine ^a   Maher, Christopher G ^a   Herbert, Robert D ^a   Elkins, M R ^c  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MASTERS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY   (Brazil)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PUBLISHING;

EID: 79952065114     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20090419     Document Type: Article

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