US news and world report cancer hospital rankings: Do they reflect measures of research productivity?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Prasad, Vinay ^a   Goldstein, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RESEARCH; CLASSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FUNDING; HUMAN; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRODUCTIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LINEAR MODELS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907457161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107803     Document Type: Article

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