A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Grieneisen, Michael L ^a,b   Zhang, Minghua ^a,b  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; PUBLISHING; PUBMED;

EID: 84868089356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044118     Document Type: Article

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