Eurekometrics: Analyzing the nature of discovery

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Arbesman, Samuel ^a,b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EUREKOMETRICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTROSPECTION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; SCIENCE;

EID: 79959826378     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002072     Document Type: Article

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