Factors influencing editors' decision on acceptance or rejection of manuscripts: The author's perspective

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-262

  Shakiba, Behnam ^a   Salmasian, Hojjat ^a   Yousefi Nooraie, Reza ^a   Rohanizadegan, Mersedeh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Journal article; Manuscripts; Publication bias; Publishing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTHOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

AUTHORSHIP; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDITORIAL POLICIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MALE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 44849127885     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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