Equal Contributions and Credit: An Emerging Trend in the Characterization of Authorship in Major Anaesthesia Journals during a 10-Yr Period

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Li, Zhi ^a   Sun, Yu Ming ^a   Wu, Fei Xiang ^a   Yang, Li Qun ^a   Lu, Zhi Jie ^a   Yu, Wei Feng ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLICATION; TREND STUDY;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLISHING; SERIAL PUBLICATIONS;

EID: 84881104275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071430     Document Type: Article

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