Temporal characteristics of retracted articles

Scientometrics

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1771-1783

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a   Halevi, Gali ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Citation analysis; Scientific fraud and dishonesty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048553791     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2802-y     Document Type: Article

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