Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Laakso, Mikael ^a   Björk, Bo Christer ^a  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Open access; scientific publishing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPEN ACCESS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOM SAMPLE;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867656894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-124     Document Type: Article

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