A survey of authors publishing in four megajournals

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Solomon, David J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authors; Megajournals; Open access; Survey

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BMJ OPEN JOURNAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PEER J JOURNAL; PLOS ONE JOURNAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SAGE OPEN JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84899063646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.365     Document Type: Article

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