Have the "mega-journals" reached the limits to growth?

PeerJ

Volumn 2015, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Björk, Bo Christer ^a  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Open access; Open access journal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LIBRARY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; POLICY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 84930652448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.981     Document Type: Article

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