Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 941-956 , October 2008

Coauthorship networks and institutional collaboration patterns in reproductive biology

Received 24 May 2007 ,Revised 25 July 2007 ,Accepted 25 July 2007.

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 Supported by the I3P Program, cofinanced by the European Social Found and the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).

PII: S0015-0282(07)03023-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1378

Fertility and Sterility
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