Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often

Clinics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 509-513

  Paiva, Carlos Eduardo ^a   Lima, João Paulo da Silveira Nogueira ^a   Paiva, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro ^a  

^a BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Articles; Citations; Titles; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LINEAR MODELS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84863917031     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2012(05)17     Document Type: Review

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