A worldwide assessment of medical journal editors' practices and needs - Results of a survey by the World Association of Medical Editors

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 397-401

  Good, Cynthia D ^a   Parente, Stephen T ^b   Rennie, Drummond ^c,d   Fletcher, Suzanne W ^e  

^a Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMPUTERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0033014866     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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