The impact factor of an open access journal does not contribute to an article's citations

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Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Sood, Suneet ^a   Chua, S K ^a   Qureshi, Ahmad M ^a   Krishnan, Vijay ^b   Pai, Dinker R ^c   Kamal, Laila B ^a   Gunasegaran, Sharmilla ^a   Afzal, M Z ^a   Ambawatta, Lahiru ^a   Gan, J Y ^a   Kew, P Y ^a   Winn, Than ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c NG TENG FONG GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d MAHSA University Bandar Saujana Putra   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Bibliometrics; Google Scholar; Information science; Literature based discovery; Open access; Publications; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDLINE; PUBLISHING; SCOPUS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 85024498722     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10892.1     Document Type: Article

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