Citation analysis may severely underestimate the impact of clinical research as compared to basic research.

BACKGROUND: Citation analysis has become an important tool for research performance assessment in the medical sciences. However, different areas of medical research may have considerably different citation practices, even within the same medical field. Because of this, it is unclear to what extent c...

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Main Authors: Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Anthony F J van Raan, Robert J M Klautz, Wilco C Peul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3634776?pdf=render