Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Trend towards multiple authorship in occupational medicine journals | Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology BioMed Central Research Trend towards multiple authorship in occupational medicine journals Sami Shabant and Tar-Ching Aw f Address Department of Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine Health Sciences United Arab Emirates University Al-Ain UAE Email Sami Shaban - Tar-Ching Aw - tcaw@ Corresponding author tEqual contributors Open Access Published 9 February 2009 Received 24 September 2008 J-I-. -. zv A J. IZ I mz i-rzr ZZ1- A Accepted 9 February 2009 Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4 3 doi 1745-6673-4-3 This article is available from http content 4 1 3 2009 Shaban and Aw licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background There is an established trend towards an increasing number of authors per article in prestigious journals for medicine and health sciences. It is uncertain whether a similar trend occurs to the same extent in journals for specific medical specialties. Methods Journals focusing on occupational medicine were selected for analysis with regard to single or multiple-authorship per peer-reviewed paper. Data were collected from PubMed for publications between 1970 and 2007. These were analysed to calculate the average number of authors per multiple-author article per year and the percentage of single-author articles per year. The slope and average of these journals were then compared with that of previously studied non-occupational medicine journals. Results The results confirm a trend towards a linear increase in the average number of authors per article and a linear decrease in the percentage of single-author articles. The slope for the average number of authors for .
