Guest Authors or Ghost Inventors? Inventorship and Authorship Attribution in Academic Science

Evaluation Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-45

  Lissoni, Francesco ^a,b   Montobbio, Fabio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

content area; design and evaluation of programs and policies; economic evaluation; education

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INVENTOR; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STANDARDS; WRITING;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; INVENTORS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84925356705     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X13517234     Document Type: Article

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