An emerging trend of equal authorship credit in major public health journals.

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A study (Akhabue and Lautenbach 2010 ) investigated this phenomenon in five general medical journals (the New England Journal of Medicine , the Journal of the American Medical Association , the Lancet , the Annals of Internal Medicine , and the British Medical Journal ) from 2000 to 2009 and noted an increasing trend toward according multiple authors with equal credit as a function of time.

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