The prevalence of honorary and ghost authorships in iranian bio-medical journals and its associated factors

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-21

  Mirzazadeh, A ^a,b   Navadeh, S ^a,b   Rokni, M B ^c   Farhangniya, M ^d  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ghost author; Honorary author; Iran; Journal; Paper

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955540072     PISSN: 22516085     EISSN: 22516093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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