Impact and alternative metrics for medical publishing: our experience with International Orthopaedics

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1459-1464

  Scarlat, Marius M ^a,b   Mavrogenis, Andreas F ^c   Pećina, Marko ^b,d   Niculescu, Marius ^e  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (France)

^b International Orthopaedics   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

^e CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; CWTS; Downloads; Eigenfactor Score; Google Scholar; Impact factor; International Orthopaedics; OrthoEvidence ; ResearchGate ; Science Citation Index; Scopus ; SICOT; SNIP; SpringerLink ; Thomson Reuters; Twitter ; Usage factor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMED CENTRAL; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; ORTHOPEDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SEARCH ENGINE; SOCIAL MEDIA; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; ORTHOPEDICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84938998450     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-015-2766-y     Document Type: Article

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