Nylenna-Simonsen-Chalmers Misconduct Diagram
The Lancet (10 June 2006, p 1882) had one of the best descriptions of scientific misconduct that I have ever seen (yes, I am also admiring Geoffrey Rose). The authors…
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Scientific misconduct deserves more attention and better research committees
Misconduct is ever increasing with the increasing science industry. The spectrum of misconduct is large – as I explained some years ago with an extended version of the N-S-C Diagram….
Does identification of misconduct in studies affect medical guidelines?
…approach by bibliographic databases, authors, journals and publishers to mitigate the impact of known cases of research misconduct, patients, other researchers and their funders may continue to be adversely affected….
Reporting misconduct
When? Source Horbach 2019 (visited 28Feb2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00202-8 Who? In our limited sample, professors reported a witnessed case of alleged misconduct more often (67% reported vs 29% not reported) than other…
Scientific misconduct
For my upcoming talk next month in Milano I have updated my 2006 diagram schema, including the following items…
How frequent is scientific misconduct?
Figure 3. Admission rates of Questionable Research Practices (QRP) in self- and non-self-reports. N indicates the number of survey questions. Boxplots show median and interquartiles. Reference https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005738.g003 Correct answer:…
Research integrity goals for 2022
I could not say it better as already voiced by Evan D. Kharasch It has been a difficult year for scientific integrity. The problem of scientific misconduct is occupying a…
Accurate reporting
One of the PLoS editors has a vocal report on a recent meeting “Why accurate reporting is an ethical duty“. When dealing here with a misconduct case, I had the…
The Lancet and scientific integrity
…case. The Lancet writes Last week, allegations of research misconduct against Paolo Macchiarini, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, were finally dismissed. The university issued its final…
A passion for precision
…of manuscripts, however, it seems that careful writing and copy-editing of printed material has become unfashionable. As a consequence a recent commentary 12 defined scientific misconduct in a new way…
Irreproducibility, once more
…rare exceptions, we have no evidence to suggest that irreproducibility is caused by scientific misconduct. In 2011, the Office of Research Integrity of the US Department of Health and Human…
So many asthma papers under fire
…386 asthma entries at PubPeer. What is really happening in this field? When I started the field there was just one misconduct case – Ranjit Kumar Chandra. That’s an increase…
Can a research school replace the former role model of a professor?
Nature yesterday about cheating students and misconduct Institutions need to stop treating education as a product and refrain from determining the value of research by the amount of funding received…
Of guests and ghosts
Here is a rare occasion where you can identify “guests” and “ghosts” in a paper – a common practice. It is the most highly cited paper of a former collaborator…
6 sigma (TM)
No, this is not a post about another case of scientific misconduct (the sigma factor in transcription initiation published in Cell last October) but about Six Sigma, a process developed…