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Differences in authors' academic title and specialty by gender in contemporary surgical literature
K Audisio1, N Bryce Robinson1, G J Soletti1
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
The British Journal of Surgery
|March 29, 2021
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