Investigating biomedical research literature in the blogosphere: A case study of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-42

  Gruzd, Anatoliy ^a   Black, Fiona A ^a   Le, Thi Ngoc Yen ^b   Amos, Kathleen ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Thirdwave Consulting   (Canada)

^c Public Health Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN A; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIBLIOMETRICS; BLOOD; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIBLIOMETRICS; BLOGGING; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PUBMED; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84856454197     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.007     Document Type: Article

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