An investigation of retracted articles in the biomedical literature

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-9

  Budd, John M ^a   Coble, Zach ^b   Abritis, Alison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Retraction Watch   (United States)

Author keywords

citation analysis; retraction of publication; Scientific communication

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE; BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85015311468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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