Along with the privilege of authorship come important responsibilities

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Moher, David ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authorship; Quality; Responsibility; Transparency

Indexed keywords

BIOMED CENTRAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG INDUSTRY; EDITOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSIBILITY; TRACTION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84965184782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-014-0214-2     Document Type: Note

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