Several recent issues of the ISI@ newspaper ‘fle Scierrtistm12 contain articles on ethical issues in science. One is a reviewJ of a book entitfed Fake Prophets: Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine,d by virologist Alexander Kohn, Tel Aviv Medical School, Israel. Tw05,6 discuss the controversial, recently published study on coauthorship by Walter W. Stewart and Ned Feder, Nationaf Institutes ...

Research integrity is frequently highlighted as an essential component of modern medicine and science. Adherence to the ethical principles of one’s profession might seem like a simple task, but research misconduct remains a serious problem. Despite repeated calls for increased emphasis on the importance of research integrity [1–6] and a proliferation of guidelines regulating scientific miscondu...

The Great Betrayal is a broad-brush discussion of scientific fraud over the last quartercentury. It is a tale told by a very skilled and engaging writer, aimed the educated general public, and deeply concerned with the viability of a precious institution. Judson's exposition of the subject is certainly the best of breed. But the book is also useful to specialist researchers because it is so ric...

Having considered current reports concerning plagiarisms taking place in the global science community, the authors decided to address the principal reasons, which lead to these illegalities. In recent years, misconduct in research, such as plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, guest author, ghost author, self-citation, etc. have been increasing significantly in scientific papers, proving a la...

BACKGROUND The knowledge of scientific dishonesty is scarce and heterogeneous. Therefore this study investigates the experiences with and the attitudes towards various forms of scientific dishonesty among PhD-students at the medical faculties of all Norwegian universities. METHOD Anonymous questionnaire distributed to all post graduate students attending introductory PhD-courses at all medica...

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