Perish or publish dilemma: Challenges to responsible authorship

Medicina (Lithuania)

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2020, Pages

  Aliukonis, Vygintas ^a   Poškutė, Margarita ^a   Gefenas, Eugenijus ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Authorship; Authorship misuse; Ghost authorship; Honorary authorship; Publication ethics; Research integrity

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HUMAN; PUBLISHING; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85082023652     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina56030123     Document Type: Review

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