Discovering opinion leaders for medical topics using news articles

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha ^a,b   Peeler, Ryan ^a   Topham, Philip ^a  

^a Lnx Research LLC   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84878338463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-3-2     Document Type: Article

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