A framework for automatic information quality ranking of diabetes websites

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-66

  Belen Saʇlam, Rahime ^a   Temizel, Tugba Taskaya ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biased content; Diabetes; Information quality; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916910386     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2013.872109     Document Type: Article

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