An application of Bradford’s law: identification of the core journals of pediatric neurosurgery and a regional comparison of citation density

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1717-1727

  Venable, Garrett T ^a   Shepherd, Brandon A ^a   Roberts, Mallory L ^a   Taylor, Douglas R ^b   Khan, Nickalus R ^b   Klimo, Paul ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c SEMMES MURPHEY NEUROLOGIC AND SPINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LE BONHEUR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Bradford s law; Citation analysis; Core journals; h index; Neurosurgery; Pediatric; Scopus

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EUROPE; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NEUROSURGERY; NORTH AMERICA; PEDIATRICS; PUBLISHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EUROPE; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NEUROSURGERY; NORTH AMERICA; PEDIATRICS; PUBLISHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84929501918     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-014-2481-9     Document Type: Article

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