"Ghost" Publications among Applicants to a General Surgery Residency Program

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 485-489

  Kuo, Paul C ^a   Schroeder, Rebecca A ^a   Shah, Anand ^a   Shah, Jatin ^a   Jacobs, Danny O ^a   Pietrobon, Ricardo ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LIBRARIAN; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDLINE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AUTHORSHIP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PUBLICATIONS; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL;

EID: 52949148956     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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