A measure for the impact of research

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Aragon, Alejandro M ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCIENTIST; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIBLIOMETRICS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH;

EID: 84885594995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01649     Document Type: Article

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