Silent or Stealth Retractions, the Dangerous Voices of the Unknown, Deleted Literature

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 44-53

  Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^a  

^a Miki cho Post Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accountability; COPE; Errors; Ethics; Literature correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964308136     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-015-9439-y     Document Type: Article

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