Males are overrepresented among life science researchers committing scientific misconduct

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fang, Ferric C ^a   Bennett, Joan W ^b   Casadevall, Arturo ^c  

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

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; FACULTY PRACTICE; FRAUD; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STUDENT ATTITUDE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874582598     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00640-12     Document Type: Article

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