Role of editors and journals in detecting and preventing scientific misconduct: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

Medicine and Law

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 545-566

  Marusic, Ana ^a   Katavic, Vedran ^a   Marusic, Matko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Editors; Journals; Research integrity; Scientific misconduct; SWOT analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EDITOR; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; POLICY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESPONSIBILITY; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 35448979568     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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