Avoiding common problems during online submission of manuscripts

Chest

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1591-1594

  Welch, Stephen J ^a  

^a American College of Chest Physicians   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict of interest; Medical writing; Online manuscript submissions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUTHOR; AUTOMATION; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VALIDITY;

EID: 34248563865     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.06-2906     Document Type: Article

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