Reviewers are blinkered by bibliometrics

Nature

Volumn 544, Issue 7651, 2017, Pages 411-412

  Stephan, Paula ^a   Veugelers, Reinhilde ^a   Wang, Jian ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; KNOWLEDGE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; PUBLICATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85018739412     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/544411a     Document Type: Note

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