Situation of medical sciences in 50 top countries from 1996 to 2010- based on quality and quantity of publications

Acta Medica Iranica

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 273-278

  Jazayeri, Seyed Behzad ^a   Alavi, Ali ^b   Rahimi Movaghar, Vafa ^c,d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Citation per publication; Medicine; Publication per population; Scientometric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION PER PUBLICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; POLICY; PUBLICATION PER POPULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864246815     PISSN: 00446025     EISSN: 17359694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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