Open access versus subscription journals: A comparison of scientific impact

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Björk, Bo Christer ^a   Solomon, David ^b  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact; Open access; Peer review; Scientific publishing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENGINEERING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIOLOGY; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLISHING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84865293905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-73     Document Type: Article

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