Poorly cited articles in peer-reviewed cardiovascular journals from 1997 to 2007: Analysis of 5-year citation rates

Circulation

Volumn 131, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 1755-1762

  Ranasinghe, Isuru ^a,b   Shojaee, Abbas ^a   Bikdeli, Behnood ^a   Gupta, Aakriti ^a   Chen, Ruijun ^a   Ross, Joseph S ^a,c,d   Masoudi, Frederick A ^e   Spertus, John A ^f,g   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^h   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,c,d  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Bibliometrics; Citation; Journal impact factor

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CITATION ANALYSIS; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CARDIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; CARDIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84936119304     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.015080     Document Type: Review

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