How do research faculty in the biosciences evaluate paper authorship criteria?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Kassis, Timothy ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FEMALE; FUNDING; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCIENTIST; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WRITING; PEER REVIEW; PERSONNEL;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOLOGY; FACULTY; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 85028314109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183632     Document Type: Article

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