Reporting of research quality characteristics of studies published in 6 major clinical dental specialty journals

Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 75-83

  Pandis, Nikolaos ^a,b,f   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^c   Madianos, Phoebus ^d   Makou, Margarita ^d   Eliades, Theodore ^e  

^a Private Practice   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Confidence Intervals; Confounding Variables; Dental Journals; Dental Specialties; Randomization; Research Attributes; Sample Size; Subgroup Analyses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTISTRY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

DENTISTRY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79957508606     PISSN: 15323382     EISSN: 15323390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebdp.2010.11.026     Document Type: Article

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