Report of a case of cyberplagiarism - and reflections on detecting and preventing academic misconduct using the Internet

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Eysenbach, Gunther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copyright; Ethics, Professional; Information Retrieval; Internet; Peer Review; Plagiarism; Publishing; Retraction of Publication; Scientific Misconduct; Software

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

COPYRIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS; PLAGIARISM; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 19944425837     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2.1.e4     Document Type: Article

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