Preserving the integrity of citations and references by all stakeholders of science communication

Journal of Korean Medical Science

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1545-1552

  Gasparyan, Armen Yuri ^a   Yessirkepov, Marlen ^b   Voronov, Alexander A ^c   Gerasimov, Alexey N ^d   Kostyukova, Elena I ^d   Kitas, George D ^a,e  

^a RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b South Kazakhstan State Pharmaceutical Academy ^*  (Kazakhstan)

^c KUBAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d STAVROPOL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bibliography as topic; Citations; Periodicals as topic; Publication ethics; Science communication

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENCE; STANDARDS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; EDITORIAL POLICIES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENCE; WRITING;

EID: 84946232836     PISSN: 10118934     EISSN: 15986357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2015.30.11.1545     Document Type: Article

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