Prevalence of honorary coauthorship in the American Journal of Roentgenology

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1247-1255

  Bonekamp, Susanne ^a   Halappa, Vivek Gowdra ^a   Corona Villalobos, Celia Pamela ^a   Mensa, Margaret ^a   Eng, John ^a   Lewin, Jonathan S ^a   Kamel, Ihab R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Ethics; Radiology

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; PROFESSIONALISM; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 84861639748     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.8253     Document Type: Article

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