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One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis. / Nielsen, Mathias Wullum; Andersen, Jens Peter; Schiebinger, Londa; Schneider, Jesper W.

In: Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 1, No. 11, 01.11.2017, p. 791-796.

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Nielsen, MW, Andersen, JP, Schiebinger, L & Schneider, JW 2017, 'One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 1, no. 11, pp. 791-796. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0235-x

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Nielsen, M. W., Andersen, J. P., Schiebinger, L., & Schneider, J. W. (2017). One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(11), 791-796. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0235-x

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Nielsen MW, Andersen JP, Schiebinger L, Schneider JW. One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis. Nature Human Behaviour. 2017 Nov 1;1(11):791-796. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0235-x

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Nielsen, Mathias Wullum ; Andersen, Jens Peter ; Schiebinger, Londa ; Schneider, Jesper W. / One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis. In: Nature Human Behaviour. 2017 ; Vol. 1, No. 11. pp. 791-796.

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