Let's simply scrap authorship and move to contributorship

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7839, 2012, Pages

  Smith, Richard ^a  

^a Patients Know Best   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84862939147     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e157     Document Type: Letter

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