Culture and unmerited authorship credit: Who wants it and why?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Ren, Xiaopeng ^a   Su, Hong ^a   Lu, Kewen ^a   Dong, Xiawei ^a,b   Ouyang, Zhengzheng ^c   Talhelm, Thomas ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Culture; Individualism; Science; Unmerited authorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009383142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02017     Document Type: Article

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