Prevalence of articles with honorary authors and ghost authors in peer- reviewed medical journals

JAMA

Volumn 280, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 222-224

  Flanagin, Annette ^a   Carey, Lisa A ^b,c   Fontanarosa, Phil B ^a   Phillips, Stephanie G ^c   Pace, Brian P ^a   Lundberg, George D ^a   Rennie, Drummond ^a  

^a JAMA   (United States)

^b MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Project House Inc INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; WRITING;

EID: 0032527543     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.3.222     Document Type: Article

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