Misconduct Policies in High-Impact Biomedical Journals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bosch, Xavier ^a   Hernández, Cristina ^a   Pericas, Juan M ^a   Doti, Pamela ^a   Marušić, Ana ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT VALIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDITOR; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POLICY; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84871344958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051928     Document Type: Article

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