Nine criteria for a measure of scientific output

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kreiman, Gabriel ^a,b   Maunsell, John H R ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Citation; Impact; Impact factors; Peer review; Productivity; Quality versus quantity; Scientific output

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEUROLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY;

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CITATION; IMPACT; IMPACT FACTOR; PEER REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CAREER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84857885230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00048     Document Type: Article

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