Honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publications? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make (pseudo)honorary authors from honest contributors of every multi-author article

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 509-512

  Kovacs, Jozsef ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERSONNEL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STANDARD; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 84881555725     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2012-100568     Document Type: Article

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