Incidence of Data Duplications in a Randomly Selected Pool of Life Science Publications

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 487-496

  Oksvold, Morten P ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cancer research; Data duplication; Medical research; Publication practices; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; ETHICS; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; DUPLICATE PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84930885378     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-015-9668-7     Document Type: Article

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