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Why are journals from less-developed countries constrained to low impact factors?

Amin BredanDepartment of Biomedical Molecular BiologyGhent University & VIB Inflammation Research Center, Ghent, Belgium
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Hani T. S. BenamerNeurology DepartmentNew Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK
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Omran BakoushilDepartment of Internal MedicineUAE University, UAE, Department of Nephrology, Lund University, Sweden
Article: 25774 | Published online: 15 Sep 2014

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Fig. 1 Ranks of 2013 impact factors for journals in the category of ‘medicine, general and internal’ in the Journal Citation Reports. The top 10 journals from Africa, Asia, and South America are indicated.

Fig. 1 Ranks of 2013 impact factors for journals in the category of ‘medicine, general and internal’ in the Journal Citation Reports. The top 10 journals from Africa, Asia, and South America are indicated.

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