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Honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publications? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make (pseudo)honorary authors from honest contributors of every multi-author article

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  1. Correspondence to Professor Jozsef Kovacs, Department of Bioethics, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University, VIII. Nagyvarad ter 4, Budapest 1089, Hungary; kovjozs{at}net.sote.hu
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Kovacs J
Honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publications? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make (pseudo)honorary authors from honest contributors of every multi-author article
Journal of Medical Ethics 2013;39:509-512.

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  • Received February 12, 2012
  • Accepted July 10, 2012
  • First published August 3, 2012.
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April 27, 2016

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