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Assessing research quality

Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The former characterized by nurse education, and the latter by mental health nursing, are concerned, respectively, with research to do with nursing as a profession, and with the nursing of patients.The two groups of papers were found to have quite different characteristics.Endogenous research has a rapid growth in output, fewer authors per paper, published in highly esteemed journals, but with a low chance of external funding.By contrast, exogenous research has a lower rate of growth in output; more authors per paper, published in lower rated journals but with a higher rate of being externally funded.Rafferty et al. suggest that endogenous papers concerned with problems and issues to do with nursing as a profession, differ markedly from the generality 30th anniversary
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2051464157
FWCI: 0.761
Cites: 1
Cited by: 10
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