Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Brookes, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Correction; Erratum; Image manipulation; Retraction; Science publishing; Social media

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ERRATUM; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLISHING; RETRACTED ARTICLE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL MEDIA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84897940214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.313     Document Type: Article

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