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Should authorship on scientific publications be treated as a right?
- Correspondence to Dr David B Resnik, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA; resnikd{at}niehs.nih.gov
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Should authorship on scientific publications be treated as a right?
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- Received December 22, 2022
- Accepted February 21, 2023
- First published March 6, 2023.
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October 23, 2023
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