Replication of the methods section in biosciences papers: Is it plagiarism?

Scientometrics

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 337-345

  Jia, Xiaoyan ^a   Tan, Xufei ^a   Zhang, Yuehong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Duplication methods; Publication ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891748708     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1033-5     Document Type: Article

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