Inflated numbers of authors over time have not been just due to increasing research complexity

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 546-551

  Papatheodorou, Stefania I ^a   Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a,b   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Author; Authorship; Case reports; Ethics; Nonrandomized studies; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 42749091749     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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