Honorary and Ghost Authorship in Nursing Publications

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 416-422

  Kennedy, Maureen Shawn ^a   Barnsteiner, Jane ^b   Daly, John ^c  

^a Wolters Kluwer   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Authorship ethics; Ghost author; Guest author; Honorary author

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NURSING; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; NURSING; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84922395237     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12093     Document Type: Article

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