The Value of Vagueness in the Politics of Authorship

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 13-15

  Penders, Bart ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Authorship; Credit; Interdisciplinarity; Organization of science; Reward infrastructures; Tinkering

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; POLITICS; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; POLITICS; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE;

EID: 85007478595     PISSN: 11767529     EISSN: 18724353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-016-9768-3     Document Type: Editorial

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