Plagiarism: The emperor's new clothes

European Science Editing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 67-69

  Habibzadeh, Farrokh ^a   Marcovitch, Harvey ^b  

^a NIOC Medical Education and Research Center   (Iran)

^b Clinical Risk   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duplicate publication; Plagiarism; Publication ethics; Scientific misconduct; Verbatim

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960896466     PISSN: 02583127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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