Articles by latin american authors in prestigious journals have fewer citations.

BACKGROUND: The journal Impact factor (IF) is generally accepted to be a good measurement of the relevance/quality of articles that a journal publishes. In spite of an, apparently, homogenous peer-review process for a given journal, we hypothesize that the country affiliation of authors from develop...

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Main Authors: Rogerio Meneghini, Abel L Packer, Lilian Nassi-Calò
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2583044?pdf=render