Do the instructions to authors of Pakistani medical journals convey adequate guidance for authorship criteria?

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 879-882

  Samad, Abdul ^a   Khanzada, Tariq Wahab ^a   Siddiqui, Ali Akbar ^a  

^a ISRA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Authors; Authorship; Contributors; Instructions; Journals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAKISTAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 73349093062     PISSN: 1682024X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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