Authorship: To be or not to be?

European Science Editing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-8

  Steen, R Grant ^a  

^a LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Criteria; Publishing ethics; Science communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876590965     PISSN: 02583127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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