Research misconduct: A report from a developing country

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1374-1378

  Khadem Rezaiyan, Majid ^a   Dadgarmoghaddam, Maliheh ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fabrication; Falsification; Plagiarism; Research misconduct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHECKLIST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; POSTGRADUATE STUDENT; PROBABILITY; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

EID: 85030861595     PISSN: 22516085     EISSN: 22516093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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