What is authorship, and what should it be? A survey of prominent guidelines for determining authorship in scientific publications

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Osborne, Jason W ^a   Holland, Abigail ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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