Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Fong, Eric A ^a   Wilhite, Allen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FUNDING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PUBLICATION; SOCIOLOGY; WRITING; EDUCATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUTHORSHIP; EDUCATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 85037356077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187394     Document Type: Article

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