Pride and Concern for Bibliometric Achievements: Deserved Results or Result of Cites Inflation?

Med Lav · 2023 · PMC10415845 · PMID 37534421

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Such a positive trend is corroborated by other metrics, such as the immediacy index, and has been achieved in a few years by a small, independently managed, and fully open-access journal not applying, so far, any article processing charge.

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