Misconduct policies, academic culture and career stage, not gender or pressures to publish, affect scientific integrity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Fanelli, Daniele ^a   Costas, Rodrigo ^b   Larivière, Vincent ^c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MONEY; PRESSURE; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RETRACTED ARTICLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SCIENTIST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOLOGY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; ETHICS; FEMALE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH REPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84939192726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127556     Document Type: Article

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