A controlled analysis of authorship trends over two decades

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 503-507

  Khan, Khalid S ^a,c   Nwosu, Chika R ^b   Khan, Sabina F ^b   Dwarakanath, Linga S ^a   Chien, Patrick F W ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authorship; Logistic regression; Research funding

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FINANCE; GYNECOLOGY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSTETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WRITING;

EID: 0032820697     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9378(99)70585-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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