Decay of references to web sites in articles published in general medical journals: Mainstream vs small journals

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 455-464

  Habibzadeh, P ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Internet; Scientometrics; Uniform resource locator; URL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENTOMETRICS; STATISTICS; UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR; URL;

CITATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; SCIENTOMETRICS; UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR; URL;

BIBLIOMETRICS; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84885129376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2013-07-RA-0055     Document Type: Article

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