A more than one-hundred-fold higher per capita rate of authorship of five democratic nations versus their relatively undemocratic neighboring nations among 6,437 articles in 14 medical journals: Does democracy and civil liberties promote intellectual creativity and medical research?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1609-1620

  Cappell, Mitchell S ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic freedom; Academic medicine; Authorship; Civil liberties; Democracy; Gastroenterology; Israeli medicine; Medical research; Middle East; Publications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; FREEDOM; HONG KONG; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; INTELLECT; ISRAEL; JAPAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH KOREA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH KOREA; TAIWAN; WRITING; CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; KOREA; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; CIVIL RIGHTS; CREATIVENESS; DEMOCRACY; FREEDOM; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JAPAN; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; KOREA; MIDDLE EAST; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; POLITICS; PUBLISHING; RUSSIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 67649960999     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-008-0696-x     Document Type: Article

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