Authorship dispute among the league of extraordinary gentlemen

European Science Editing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 40-41

  Habibzadeh, Farrokh ^a   Marcovitch, Harvey ^b  

^a NIOC Medical Education and Research Center   (Iran)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Authorship; Contributorship; Editorial policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865660308     PISSN: 02583127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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