Inflated numbers of authors over time have not been just due to increasing research complexity

To examine trends in and determinants of the number of authors in clinical studies. We analyzed determinants of the number of authors in 633 articles of randomized trials and 313 articles of nonrandomized studies included in large meta-analyses (seven and six topics, respectively). Analyses were adj...

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Published in:Journal of clinical epidemiology 2008-06, Vol.61 (6), p.546-551
Main Authors: Papatheodorou, Stefania I., Trikalinos, Thomas A., Ioannidis, John P.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Author
Authorship
Bibliometrics
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical Research - trends
Case reports
Confidence intervals
Epidemiology
Ethics
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical Records - statistics & numerical data
Medical sciences
Meta-analysis
Miscellaneous
Nonrandomized studies
Periodicals as Topic - statistics & numerical data
Periodicals as Topic - trends
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Publishing - statistics & numerical data
Publishing - trends
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - statistics & numerical data
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - trends
Randomized trials
Risk factors
Studies
Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation
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