Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 17028-17033

  Fang, Ferric C ^a   Steen, R Grant ^b   Casadevall, Arturo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MediCC Medical Communications Consultants   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Biomedical publishing; Ethics; Research misconduct

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRAUD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

DUPLICATE PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; PLAGIARISM; PUBMED; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867637990     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212247109     Document Type: Article

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