How Authorship is Defined by Multiple Publishing Organizations and STM Publishers

Accountability in Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 97-122

  Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^a   Dobránszki, Judit ^b  

^a University of Debrecen ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Author; Collaboration; COPE; CSE; Ethics; ICMJE; Significant vs substantial; STM publishers; WAME

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS;

EID: 84948682951     PISSN: 08989621     EISSN: 15455815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2015.1047927     Document Type: Article

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