Authorship and Responsibility in Health Sciences Research: A Review of Procedures for Fairly Allocating Authorship in Multi-Author Studies

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-212

  Smith, Elise ^a   Williams Jones, Bryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allocation of authorship; Credit; Health sciences; Multi author studies; Publication ethics; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84861454390     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9263-5     Document Type: Article

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