Occasionally we have the pleasure to announce that one of our papers has been read 300 times or 2,000 times or has been cited 40 times. However, some papers are in a different category. Today ResearchGate informed us that our 2002 paper ‘The Importance of Pilot Studies’ [1] has been read 160,000 times. This paper was written over two decades ago and submitted to the Nursing Standard when we were both still at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Profs. Vanora Hundley & Edwin van Teijlingen
Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH)
Reference:
- van Teijlingen, E, Hundley, V (2002) The Importance of Pilot Studies, Nursing Standard, 16(40):33-6
Pilot studies paper reaches 90,000 reads
More pilots please!
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Birth paper cited one hundred times in Scopus










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