An Error is an Error… is an Erratum: The Ethics of not Correcting Errors in the Science Literature

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 220-226

  Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^a  

^a Miki cho Post Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Editorial responsibility; Open access; Post publication peer review; Unethical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980320750     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-016-9469-0     Document Type: Article

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