Evaluating medical conferences: the emerging need for a quality metric

Scientometrics

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 759-764

  Lang, Raynell ^a   Porter, Kholoud ^b   Krentz, Hartmut B ^c   Gill, M John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conference impact factor; Continuing professional development; Medical education; Predatory conferences; Predatory journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074839492     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03291-w     Document Type: Letter

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