Multiple authorship and article type in journals of urology across the atlantic: Trends over the past six decades

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 435-441

  Hammad, Fayez T ^a   Shaban, Sami ^a   Abu Zidan, Fikri ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Multiple authorship; Type of article; Urology journals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NORTH AMERICA; TREND STUDY; UROLOGY; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; EUROPE; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; UROLOGY;

EID: 84864988822     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339884     Document Type: Article

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