Is quality and completeness of reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in high impact radiology journals associated with citation rates?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Van Der Pol, Christian B ^a   McInnes, Matthew D F ^a,b   Petrcich, William ^b   Tunis, Adam S ^a   Hanna, Ramez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGY; META ANALYSIS;

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 84925004204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119892     Document Type: Article

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