Do Editorial policies support ethical research? A thematic text analysis of author instructions in psychiatry journals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Strech, Daniel ^a   Metz, Courtney ^a,b   Knüppel, Hannes ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHIATRY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRY; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 84902455839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097492     Document Type: Article

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