Bradford’s law: Identification of the core journals for neurosurgery and its subspecialties

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 569-579

  Venable, Garrett T ^a   Shepherd, Brandon A ^a   Loftis, Christopher M ^a   McClatchy, S Gray ^e   Roberts, Mallory L ^a   Fillinger, Meghan E ^a   Tansey, James B ^c   Klimo, Paul ^a,b,d  

^a LE BONHEUR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SEMMES MURPHEY NEUROLOGIC AND SPINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Bradford s law; Citation analysis; Core journals; H index; Neurosurgery; Scopus; Subspecialties

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; PEDIATRICS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; REVIEW; SKULL BASE; SPINE; BIBLIOMETRICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; NEUROSURGEONS; NEUROSURGERY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84976557327     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2015.3.JNS15149     Document Type: Review

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