Credit and authorship practices: Educational and environmental influences

Accountability in Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 223-256

  House, Mark C ^a   Seeman, Jeffrey I ^b  

^a Giant Steps Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Education; Mentoring; Responsible conduct of research (RCR)

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POLICY; PUBLICATION; SCIENCE; STANDARD; TEACHER; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; MENTORS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SCIENCE;

EID: 77957662357     PISSN: 08989621     EISSN: 15455815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2010.512857     Document Type: Article

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