Media coverage of medical journals: Do the best articles make the news?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Selvaraj, Senthil ^a   Borkar, Durga S ^b   Prasad, Vinay ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Brockton ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STUDY DESIGN;

HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84898409810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085355     Document Type: Article

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