Famous cases of research fraud typically involve fabricated or falsified data, but the most common form of laboratory misconduct today involves scientists publishing microscopic images that don’t match original data — so-called image manipulation. The practice likely accounts for more than 70% of cases handled by the United States Office of Research Integrity (ORI), according to Susan Garfinkel...

The recent publication on “Scientific misconduct encountered by APAME journals: an online survey” is very interesting. As noted, ethical culture of researchers/authors and reviewers, antiplagiarism software, and technical support to detect problem are raised as important insights. In fact, not only pathology but also other medical sciences presently encounter the problem of scientific misconduc...

The identification and prosecution of scientific misconduct in research and publishing is a problem and a priority for every Journal. Issues related to financial conflicts, “paper splitting”, simultaneous submission to more than one journal, the assignment of authorship ranks, and, importantly, scientific fraud and plagiarism need to be fully addressed. Reviewers, editors and readers are the fi...

Schools of nursing with doctoral programs were surveyed to determine current approaches and elicit suggestions for institutional- and professional-level strategies to promote scientific integrity. Results from 38 schools are reported in a two-part series. Part 1 reports findings concerning formal and informal instruction about responsible science and the standards, norms, and guidelines being u...