How to rate the quality of a research paper: Introducing a helpful algorithm for architects and designers

Health Environments Research and Design Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-127

  Marquardt, Gesine ^a   Motzek, Tom ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evidence based design; Methodology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; RESEARCH;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84884707784     PISSN: 19375867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/193758671300600210     Document Type: Article

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