Whose paper is it anyway? Authorship criteria according to established scholars in health professions education

Academic Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1171-1175

  Uijtdehaage, Sebastian ^a   Mavis, Brian ^b   Durning, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH ETHICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85044948591     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002144     Document Type: Article

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