An analysis of the citation climate in neurosurgical literature and description of an interfield citation metric

Neurosurgery

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 505-513

  Madhugiri, Venkatesh S ^a   Sasidharan, Gopalakrishnan M ^a   Subeikshanan, Venkatesan ^a   Dutt, Akshat ^a   Ambekar, Sudheer ^b   Strom, Shane F ^c  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Citations; H index; Impact factor; Interfield variations; Metrics; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLIMATE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; PUBLISHING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84928211836     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000656     Document Type: Review

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