" Equal" Contributions and Credit: An Emerging Trend in the Characterization of Authorship

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 868-871

  Akhabue, Ehimare ^e   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^d Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Contributions; Credit; Equal; Practice

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; EVALUATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

AUTHORSHIP; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; MANUSCRIPTS AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; PUBLISHING;

EID: 77957666769     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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