Research Fraud: How Journals Should Address It
Journals and academic institutions have significant roles to play in cases where academic fraud and research misconduct are suspected. When journals suspect academic misconduct…
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Ethics and Misconduct
Research Ethics & Misconduct: What Researchers Need to Know
Ethics are the moral principles that a person must follow, irrespective of the place or time. Behaving ethically involves doing the right thing at the right time. Research ethics…
Issue at Hand: Outcome Switching in Clinical Trials
Randomized clinical trials are widely accepted as the gold standard approach to test new line of drugs, therapies, or treatments. They reduce bias by randomly allocating patients…
Integrity or Impact: What Matters in Scientific Publishing?
The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is becoming a serious problem in scholarly communication. Scientific success is often measured by the number of high-impact articles…
Does More Money Mean More Scientific Misconduct?
Researchers and academicians often complain about the unrelenting pressure to “publish or perish”. The extent to which the quantity of published work, and the extent to which that…
How to Confront Scientific Misconduct
If you are a researcher at a university working on a new drug and the company with whom you collaborate sends you a publication for your approval. You request to see the raw data…
What You Need to Know about Scientific Misconduct?
Although there are many researchers who are deeply committed to the highest standard of ethics, there are others who take advantage of the system and engage in scientific…
How Rare is Scientific Misconduct?
Assessing how rare scientific misconduct might be within the broader scientific research community would be virtually impossible. A scientific misconduct cannot be identified until…
Scientific Misconduct: Why Do Researchers Cheat?
How Do Scientists Cheat?
Academic fraud can be broken down into three categories:
Plagiarism – the use of a colleague’s work without clear attribution and citation.…
The Consequences of Flawed Research
Flawed research, as opposed to deliberately fraudulent research, can be looked at from several angles:
The original identification of the topic can be based on a poor…
When Science Gets Misused
Only a Representative Sample
Students of research methodology and statistical analysis are very familiar with the importance of working with a study sample that can claim to be…
5 Ways to Reduce the Number of Erroneous Research Papers
There are several types of errors in research papers are published every year, causing embarrassment to those who truly believe in science and academia’s good procedures. Is it…