Promoting stewardship of academic productivity in emergency medicine: Using the H-index to advance beyond the impact factor

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1067-1069

  Cone, David C ^a   Carpenter, Christopher R ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EDUCATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESIDENT; WRITING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84886896321     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12227     Document Type: Note

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