Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: A cross sectional survey

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7835, 2011, Pages

  Wislar, Joseph S ^a   Flanagin, Annette ^a   Fontanarosa, Phil B ^a   DeAngelis, Catherine D ^a  

^a AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BIOMEDICINE; EDITORIAL; GHOST AUTHOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; WRITING; BIBLIOMETRICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 83255182742     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d6128     Document Type: Article

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