Best practices for allocating appropriate credit and responsibility to authors of multi-authored articles

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Eggert, Lucas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Authorship; Contributorship; Responsible conduct of research; Scientific publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867074363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00196     Document Type: Short Survey

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