Schizophrenia Research
Volume 118, Issue 1 , Pages 279-284 , May 2010

Schizophrenia in Medline 1950–2006: A bibliometric investigation

  • Sten S. Theander

      Affiliations

    • Division of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lennart Wetterberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry at St. Goran's Hospital, the Karolinska Institute, SE-112 81 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet at St. Goran's Hospital, SE-112 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel./fax: +46 8 256970.

Received 29 September 2008 ,Revised 7 May 2009 ,Accepted 12 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.05.013

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 118, Issue 1 , Pages 279-284 , May 2010

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