Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 356-363

  Owens, Jacqueline K ^a   Nicoll, Leslie H ^b  

^a ASHLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplicate publication; nursing journal; plagiarism; predatory; scholarly writing; unethical publishing

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITOR; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISCONDUCT; NURSING LITERATURE; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; WRITING; NURSING RESEARCH; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PUBLICATION;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PLAGIARISM; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85063954920     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12475     Document Type: Article

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