Longitudinal trends in global obesity research and collaboration: A review using bibliometric metadata

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 377-385

  Khan, A ^a   Choudhury, N ^a   Uddin, S ^a   Hossain, L ^b   Baur, L A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Data mining; Longitudinal trend; Meta analysis; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATA BASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBESITY; PUBLICATION; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; DATA MINING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATA MINING; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84959502049     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obr.12372     Document Type: Article

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