The impact of misconduct on the published medical and non-medical literature, and the news media

Scientometrics

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 573-587

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

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Non PubMed; Plagiarism; PubMed; Research misconduct; Scholarly disciplines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880133981     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0920-5     Document Type: Article

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