The Impact Factor in non-English-speaking countries

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-311

  González Alcaide, Gregorio ^a,b   Valderrama Zurián, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Aleixandre Benavent, Rafael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y la Ciencia López Piñero   (Spain)

Author keywords

Journal Impact Factor; Language; Publishing; Scientific literature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864209798     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0692-y     Document Type: Article

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