Twenty-five years of Australian nursing and allied health professional journals: Bibliometric analysis from 1985 through 2010

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 359-378

  Wiles, Louise ^a   Olds, Timothy ^a   Williams, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health occupations; Bibliometrics; Nursing; Periodicals as topic; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871929157     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0704-y     Document Type: Article

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