The gender gap in high-impact psychiatry journals

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 946-952

  Amering, Michaela ^a,b   Schrank, Beate ^a   Sibitz, Ingrid ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

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EID: 80051543948     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182222887     Document Type: Article

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