How to select a journal to submit and publish your biomedical paper?

BioImpacts

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-68

  Shokraneh, Farhad ^a   Ilghami, Roghayeh ^b   Masoomi, Rasoul ^c   Amanollahi, Alireza ^c  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biomedical papers; Journal selection criteria; Submission and publication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84876787047     PISSN: 22285652     EISSN: 22285660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5681/bi.2012.008     Document Type: Article

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