Analysis of citations to biomedical articles affected by scientific misconduct

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-261

  Neale, Anne Victoria ^a   Dailey, Rhonda K ^a   Abrams, Judith ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Journal citations; Journalology; Quantitative content analysis; Retraction; Scientific misconduct

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STATISTICS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; DRUG EFFECTS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; BIBLIOMETRICS; BLOOD PLATELETS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLATELET COUNT; PUBMED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 77952426777     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9151-4     Document Type: Article

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