Patterns of authorship in the biomedical literature of Nigeria

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Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Nwagwu, Williams E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Authorship; Biomedical literature; Co authorship; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047223691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10586768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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