Best one hundred papers of International Orthopaedics: a bibliometric analysis

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 689-697

  Mavrogenis, Andreas F ^a   Megaloikonomos, Panayiotis D ^a   Panagopoulos, Georgios N ^a   Mauffrey, Cyril ^b   Quaile, Andrew ^c   Scarlat, Marius M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Hampshire Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (France)

Author keywords

Best papers; Bibliometric analysis; Citations; International Orthopaedics; Most frequently cited papers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; BONE INJURY; CASE STUDY; CITATION ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCOPUS; SEARCH ENGINE; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; WRITING; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDICS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85008187832     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-016-3376-z     Document Type: Article

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