Criteria for authorship in bioethics

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 17-21

  Resnik, David B ^a   Master, Zubin ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accountability; Authorship guidelines; Bioethics; Conceptual publications; Fairness; Multiple authorship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOETHICS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MANUSCRIPTS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATIONS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 80053243956     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2011.603795     Document Type: Article

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