Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

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

^a Medical Communications Consultants LLC   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CITATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; TIME;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PROBABILITY; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879967616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068397     Document Type: Article

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