A survey of retracted articles in dentistry

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Nogueira, Túlio Eduardo ^a   Gonçalves, Andréia Souza ^a   Leles, Cláudio Rodrigues ^a   Batista, Aline Carvalho ^a   Costa, Luciane Rezende ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Dentistry; Duplicate publication; Ethics; Plagiarism; Retracted articles; Retracted publication; Retraction of publication; Scientific frauds; Scientific misconduct

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DENTISTRY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DENTISTRY; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC;

EID: 85022205858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-2576-y     Document Type: Article

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