Author self-citation in the general medicine literature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kulkarni, Abhaya V ^a   Aziz, Brittany ^a   Shams, Iffat ^a   Busse, Jason W ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CITATION ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFECTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLISHING; WRITING;

SCOPUS;

AUTHORSHIP; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79959242890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020885     Document Type: Article

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