Doing the Right Thing: A Qualitative Investigation of Retractions Due to Unintentional Error

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 189-206

  Hosseini, Mohammad ^a   Hilhorst, Medard ^b   de Beaufort, Inez ^b   Fanelli, Daniele ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrections; Error; Integrity; Misconduct; Moral reasoning; Retractions

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; ETHICS; EUROPE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; WRITING;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EUROPE; HUMANS; MORALS; MOTIVATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85015665170     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-9894-2     Document Type: Article

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