Scientific authorship: Part 1. A window into scientific fraud?

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 589, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-30

  Claxton, Larry D ^a  

^a US Environ Protect Agy Reg 4   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabrication; Falsification; Fraud; Misconduct; Plagiarism; Scientific publication

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY; DOCUMENTATION; EXAMINATION; FORGERY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MATERIALS; ORGANIZATION; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WRITING;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS; PLAGIARISM; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 11844279072     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2004.07.003     Document Type: Review

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