Honorary authorship: Frequency and associated factors in physical medicine and rehabilitation research articles

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 418-428

  Rajasekaran, Sathish ^a   Li Pi Shan, Rodney ^b   Finnoff, Jonathan T ^c,d  

^a Hys Center   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Tahoe Orthopedics and Sports Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Medical ethics; Publishing; Rehabilitation; Research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; WRITING;

ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; PUBLISHING; REHABILITATION; RESEARCH;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL THERAPY SPECIALTY; REHABILITATION;

EID: 84896699706     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2013.09.024     Document Type: Article

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