Fate of articles that warranted retraction due to ethical concerns: A descriptive cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Elia, Nadia ^a,b,c   Wager, Elizabeth ^d   Tramèr, Martin R ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c H   (Switzerland)

^d Sideview   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84899798532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085846     Document Type: Article

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