An analysis of the validity of retraction annotation in pubmed and the web of science

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 318-328

  Schmidt, Marion ^a  

^a Abteilung Infrastruktur und Methoden Forschungsdatenzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL DATA; INTERPRETABILITY; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; WEB OF SCIENCE;

ARTICLE; MEDLINE; RETRACTION NOTICE; VALIDITY; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 85051226847     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23913     Document Type: Article

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