Emergency medicine journal impact factor and change compared to other medical and surgical specialties

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1248-1254

  Reynolds, Joshua C ^a   Menegazzi, James J ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEB BROWSER;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MALE; MEDICINE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869425078     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12017     Document Type: Article

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