Fraud and misconduct in scientific publications

Misconduct in scientific publications.

Congress explores the incidence of scientific fraud and misconduct.

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Fraud and misconduct in publication.

Reality of Misconduct in Iranian Orthopedic Publications

Fake and misconducted scientific articles are misleading the researchers; it can also impose a huge cost on the academic centers and health system. Finally invalidated published research may give rise to incorrect treatment guidelines that may harm the patients. Based on our search in retraction watch database, 10 retracted orthopedic articles were from Iran. All the reported retracted article ...

Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications.

A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading r...