Are some categories of scientific publication more equal than others? On the ambiguous use of the label "original work"

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 244-246

  Erren, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 59249088139     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.11.006     Document Type: Editorial

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