Scientific dishonesty - A nationwide survey of doctoral students in Norway

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hofmann, Bjørn ^a,b   Myhr, Anne Ingeborg ^c   Holm, Søren ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dishonesty; Fabrication; Falsification; Misconduct; Plagiarism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECEPTION; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORWAY; PERSONNEL; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STATISTICS;

DECEPTION; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; NORWAY; PLAGIARISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871807565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-14-3     Document Type: Article

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