Assessing and Raising Concerns About Duplicate Publication, Authorship Transgressions and Data Errors in a Body of Preclinical Research

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 2069-2096

  Grey, Andrew ^a   Avenell, Alison ^b   Gamble, Greg ^a   Bolland, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authorship; Duplicate publication; Journals; Research integrity; Retraction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; WRITING;

ANIMALS; AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85074703259     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-019-00152-w     Document Type: Article

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