BioMedCentral Revised Institutional Membership Model

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

A follow-up to questions about BMC's revised membership model:

Jan, in addition to the questions posed by Ann Okerson and me, will
articles be double-counted when authored by people at many institutions?  
In the example below, this article included 10 authors from 5 separate
institutions.  Would this paper be counted as 1 article (charged to the
first author) or 5 separate submissions (one charged to each of the five
institutions) in the new "membership fee" calculation?

Thanks for your clarification.
--Phil Davis

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Results of soy-based meal replacement formula on weight, anthropometry, 
serum lipids & blood pressure during a 40-week clinical weight loss trial

Kevin R Fontaine 1 , Dongyan Yang 2 , Gary L Gadbury 3 , Stanley Heshka 4 , 
Linda G Schwartz 4 , Radha Murugesan 4 , Jennifer L Kraker 4 , Moonseong 
Heo 5 , Steven B Heymsfield 4  and David B Allison 2

1. Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 
Baltimore, MD, United States

2. Department of Biostatistics & Clinical Nutrition Research Center, 
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri – 
Rolla, United States

4. Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, Institute of 
Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New 
York, New York, United States

5. Weill Medical College of Cornell, White Plains, New York, United 
States

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