Academic Impact of Qualitative Studies in Healthcare: Bibliometric Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mori, Hiroko ^a,b   Nakayama, Takeo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSUDA COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

BIBLIOMETRICS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84874822018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057371     Document Type: Review

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