Open access to journal articles in oncology: Current situation and citation impact

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 2612-2617

  Hua, F ^a   Sun, H ^b   Walsh, T ^a   Glenny, A M ^a   Worthington, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Information storage and retrieval; Oncology; Open access; Periodicals as a topic; Publishing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CITATION ANALYSIS; COUNTRY ECONOMIC STATUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; INFORMATION CENTER; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85030530928     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx398     Document Type: Article

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