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Characteristics of online and offline health information seekers and factors that discriminate between them
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cotten, S. R., & Gupta, S. S.
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-11
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1795-1806
- ISSN
- 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2015851252
- Cited by
- 834
- References
- 43
- FWCI
- 35.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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