Citation networks of related trials are often disconnected: Implications for bidirectional citation searches

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 793-799

  Robinson, Karen A ^a,b   Dunn, Adam G ^c   Tsafnat, Guy ^c   Glasziou, Paul ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citation networks; Clinical trials; Meta analysis; Network analysis; Searching; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

CITATION NETWORKS; CLINICAL TRIALS; META-ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SEARCHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84902550499     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.11.015     Document Type: Article

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