Representation of women as authors of collaborative cancer clinical trials

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 806-808

  Sun, Gordon H ^a   Moloci, Nicholas M ^a   Schmidt, Kelsey ^a   MacEachern, Mark P ^a   Jagsi, Reshma ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; BIBLIOMETRICS; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UNITED STATES;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; WOMEN;

EID: 84899788226     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.250     Document Type: Letter

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