Prescribed practices of authorship: Review of codes of ethics from professional bodies and journal guidelines across disciplines

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 751-763

  Bošnjak, Lana ^a   Marušić, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Authorship; Ethics codes; Indexing databases; Journals; Policy; Professional organizations; Publishers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869207173     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0773-y     Document Type: Article

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