What affects authors' and editors' use of reporting guidelines? Findings from an online survey and qualitative interviews

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Fuller, Thomas ^a,b   Pearson, Mark ^a   Peters, Jaime ^a   Anderson, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EDITOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLICATION; REPORTING GUIDELINE; WEB BROWSER; WORK EXPERIENCE; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84928911021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121585     Document Type: Article

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