Trends in authorship order in biomedical research publications

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-168

  Burrows, Suzetta ^a   Moore, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship order; Authorship position; Authorship sequence; Bibliometrics; Citations; Contributing authors; First author; H index; Icmje; International committee of medical journal editors; Last author; Medical publishing; National library of medicine; Nlm; Wame; World association of medical editors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958190509     PISSN: 15424065     EISSN: 15424073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15424065.2011.576613     Document Type: Article

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