Scientific sinkhole: The pernicious price of formatting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2019, Pages

  LeBlanc, Allana G ^a   Barnes, Joel D ^a   Saunders, Travis J ^b   Tremblay, Mark S ^a   Chaput, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING; COST; ECONOMICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; PEER REVIEW; PERSONNEL; PUBLICATION; SELF REPORT; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SELF REPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85072659299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223116     Document Type: Article

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