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Validation of an index of the quality of review articles
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Metadata
- Authors
- Oxman, A. D., & Guyatt, G. H.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1991
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1271-1278
- ISSN
- 0895-4356 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2103637454
- Cited by
- 786
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 6.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
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