Contributorship, not authorship: Use credit to indicate who did what

Publications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Holcombe, Alex O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Authorship; Funding; Incentives; Meta science

Indexed keywords

EID: 85070755590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23046775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/PUBLICATIONS7030048     Document Type: Article

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