A comprehensive analysis of articles retracted between 2004 and 2013 from biomedical literature - A call for reforms

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 136-139

  Singh, Harkanwal Preet ^a   Mahendra, Ashish ^b   Yadav, Bhupender ^c   Singh, Harpreet ^d   Arora, Nitin ^e   Arora, Monika ^f  

^a Dasmesh Institute of Research and Dental Sciences   (India)

^b Chandra Dental College   (India)

^c SGT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha Dental College   (India)

^e MANAV RACHNA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND STUDIES   (India)

^f Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Duplication of article; Plagiarism; Retraction of articles; Self correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905500809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22254110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2225-4110.136264     Document Type: Article

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