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Scientific misconduct

Scientific misconduct is the violation of ethical and professional standards in research, including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and other practices that compromise the integrity of the design, conduct, analysis, reporting, or publication of scientific or research findings.

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see also · 25
Scientific misconduct → Academic, Authors, Betrayers, Committee, Committees, Crooked ThinkingThe Great Betrayal, Deceit, Fraud, Fraud In ScienceWorkplace, Halls, Hippocratic Oath, IndiaScientific, Integrity Risk IndexRetractions, Medical Journal EditorsJapanese, ORI, Publication EthicsConflicts, Research Integrity, ScienceEASE Guidelines, Scientific ArticlesStraight, Scientific DishonestyData
related to Motivations · 18
Scientific misconduct → According, Caltech, Career, Corporations, David Goodstein, Ease, Hence, In, It, Monetary, Political, Psychologists, Research, Science, Scientists, That, There, This
related to Forms · 16
Scientific misconduct → According, Arguably, Citation, Discovery, Fabrication, Falsification, Matthew, National Science Foundation, One, Plagiarism, Plagiarism-fabrication, Self-plagiarism, Sometimes, The, There, This
related to Incidence · 11
Scientific misconduct → Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky, Medline, Northwestern, One, PubPeer, Retraction Watch, Science, Scopus, The, Web
related to Basic definitions and urgency of dealing with misconduct · 9
Scientific misconduct → For, Handling, Lancet, Office, ORI, Research Integrity, Scandinavian, The COPE, Various
related to Research institution · 8
Scientific misconduct → Furthermore, In, King's College, London, Such, United States, Universities, Well
related to Scientific culture · 8
Scientific misconduct → Although, Declaration, DORA, Kirby Lee, Lisa Bero, Research Assessment, San Francisco, Since
related to External links · 5
Scientific misconduct → Media, PDF, Scientific, Wikimedia CommonsPublication, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Scientific peers · 2
Scientific misconduct → Some, This
is a · 1
Scientific misconduct → violation of ethical and professional standards in research

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Scientific misconductis aviolation of ethical and professional standards in research0.90text
Adobe Photoshop by scientistsinstance ofThis was in response to the increased usage of programs0.80text
which facilitate photo manipulationinstance ofThis was in response to the increased usage of programs0.80text
those of blotsinstance ofchanging brightness and contrast to leave only the most intense signalusing clone tools to hide informationshowing only a very small part of the photograph so that additional in…0.80text
microscope imagesinstance ofchanging brightness and contrast to leave only the most intense signalusing clone tools to hide informationshowing only a very small part of the photograph so that additional in…0.80text
Web of Scienceinstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text
Scopusinstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text
Medlineinstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text
data from Retraction Watchinstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text
PubPeer found that while the total number of research publications double every 15 yearsinstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text
articles from suspected research paper mills double every 1.5 years while the number of retracted articles double every 3.3 yearsinstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text
number of articles with PubPeer comments double every 3.6 years.Recent work by Ilka Agricolainstance ofto people who were not involved in the research.A 2025 study by Northwestern university after reviewing aggregated data on the lists of deindexed journals from literature aggreg…0.80text

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