The reputational consequences of failed replications and wrongness admission among scientists

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Fetterman, Adam K ^a,b   Sassenberg, Kai ^a,c  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; SCIENTIST; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84956628834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143723     Document Type: Article

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