Prevalence of Plagiarism in Recent Submissions to the Croatian Medical Journal

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-239

  Baždarić, Ksenija ^a   Bilić Zulle, Lidija ^a,b   Brumini, Gordana ^a   Petrovečki, Mladen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Ethics; Peer review; Plagiarism; Research; Research integrity; Scientific misconduct; Self plagiarism; Software

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROATIA; ETHICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROATIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PLAGIARISM; PUBLISHING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859861011     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9347-2     Document Type: Article

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