Do croatian open access journals support ethical research? Content analysis of instructions to authors

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 12-21

  Stojanovski, Jadranka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Instructions to authors; OA; Open access; Publication ethics; Publication standards; Research integrity

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANIMAL USE; ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL; PATENT; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; WRITING; CROATIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION;

ANIMALIA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROATIA; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84922574913     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2015.002     Document Type: Article

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