Are pediatric Open Access journals promoting good publication practice? An analysis of author instructions

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Meerpohl, Joerg J ^a   Wolff, Robert F ^a,b   Antes, Gerd ^a   von Elm, Erik ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b KLEIJNEN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; PEDIATRICS; POLICY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; HUMAN; PUBLISHING; STANDARD; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PEDIATRICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 79953740891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-27     Document Type: Article

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