Successful publishing: How to get your paper accepted

Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 350-356

  Audisio, Riccardo A ^a   Stahel, Rolf A ^a   Aapro, Matti S ^a   Costa, Alberto ^a   Pandey, Manoj ^a   Pavlidis, Nicholas ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICINE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; ETHICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION; STANDARD;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 70350755631     PISSN: 09607404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suronc.2008.09.001     Document Type: Review

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