Scientific misconducts and authorship conflicts: Indian perspective

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 400-405

  Mandal, Mohanchandra ^a   Bagchi, Dipanjan ^b   Basu, Sekhar Ranjan ^a  

^a NORTH BENGAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Howrah District Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Authorship; Biomedical research ethics; Plagiarism; Scientific misconduct

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; WRITING;

EID: 84937238997     PISSN: 00195049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.160918     Document Type: Article

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