UK Doubles Its "World-Leading" Research in Life Sciences and Medicine in Six Years: Testing the Claim?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Wooding, Steven ^a   Van Leeuwen, Thed N ^b   Parks, Sarah ^c   Kapur, Shitij ^c   Grant, Jonathan ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84941920542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132990     Document Type: Article

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