Honorary authorship in biomedical journals: How common is it and why does it exist?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 346-348

  Al Herz, Waleed ^a,b   Haider, Hani ^c,d   Al Bahhar, Mahmoud ^e,f   Sadeq, Adnan ^d  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^c AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^d Deapartment of Surgery Hamed Al Essa Organ Transplant Center   (Kuwait)

^e MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f Ministry of Higher Education   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; ETHICS; EUROPE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS; SELF REPORT; STANDARDS; TRENDS; WRITING;

ASIA; AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84898838934     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101311     Document Type: Article

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