Exploring scientific misconduct: Isolated individuals, impure institutions, or an inevitable idiom of modern science?

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-282

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bioethics training; Fabrication; Fraud; Plagiarism; Scientific misconduct

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949157722     PISSN: 11767529     EISSN: 18724353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-008-9113-6     Document Type: Review

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