Retracted articles in surgery journals. What are surgeons doing wrong?

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1201-1206

  Cassão, Bruna Dell'Acqua ^a   Herbella, Fernando A M ^a   Schlottmann, Francisco ^b   Patti, Marco G ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; FRAUD; GENERAL SURGERY; ORTHOPEDICS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RECIDIVISM; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SURGEON; THORAX SURGERY; TRAUMATOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; SURGERY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PLAGIARISM; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL;

EID: 85042938261     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.01.015     Document Type: Article

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