Ethics and Misconduct

Journals and academic institutions have significant roles to play in cases where academic fraud and research misconduct are suspected. When journals suspect academic misconduct…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Assessing how rare scientific misconduct might be within the broader scientific research community would be virtually impossible. A scientific misconduct cannot be identified until…

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.…

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…

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…

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…