Minimal prevalence of authorship misrepresentation among internal medicine residency applicants: Do previous estimates of "misrepresentation" represent insufficient case finding?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 390-392

  Hebert, Randy S ^a,b   Smith, Cheri G ^a   Wright, Scott M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSIS; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; WRITING;

EID: 0037418572     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-5-200303040-00008     Document Type: Article

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