Correlation between article download and citation figures for highly accessed articles from five open access oncology journals

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Nieder, Carsten ^a,b   Dalhaug, Astrid ^a,b   Aandahl, Gro ^a  

^a NORDLAND HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Oncology bibliometrics; Oncology research; Open access; Publication pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881236455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-261     Document Type: Review

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