Misconduct

Publication Type: Government Report
Abstract: NSF is issuing a final rule that revises its existing misconduct in science and engineering regulations. These revisions implement the Federal Policy on Research Misconduct issued by the Executive Office of the President's Office of...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2002/03/18/02-6179/research-misconduct

Authors: Boesz, Christine ; Lloyd, Nigel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article presents a commentary about cross-border collaborations regarding research misconduct. It focuses on the issues surrounding the cross-border collaboration and the unethical behaviors of scientists which is getting harder...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1038/452686a

Authors: Judson, Horace Freeland
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: The author details various types of scientific fraud and how they happen: considers science's self-government, including peer review and paper refereeing; and exposes the failures of academic, legal, and government responses. With r...
Year: 2004
URL: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/har051/2004005906.html

Authors: Herreid, Clyde Freeman ; University at Buffalo, Department of Biological Sciences
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case is based upon a real experience. It is written as an exercise for faculty to discuss, perhaps in a brown bag seminar at lunch time. In many ways it represents a rather common type of problem, cheating—what to do about it a...
Year: 2006
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=399&id=399

Authors: Chen-tzu, Ye ; University of California Davis, Departments of Pharmacology, Internal Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this case study, students learn about the complexities and issues associated with clinical trials. After reading a newspaper story about a fraudulently conducted clinical trial involving a treatment for skin cancer, students simu...
Year: 2002
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=233&id=233

Authors: Farthing, Michael ; Wells, Frank
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This collection of essays from contributors around the globe explores all areas of misconduct in biomedical research. Designed to be used as a textbook, it explores misconduct in medical research, publication ethics, the history and...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=66700

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A nurse involved in recording data for a clinical trial becomes suspicious when he reads the published account of the study. After talking to the principle investigator, his suspicions grow. He takes some steps to blow the whistle, ...
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/Megacase.htm

Authors: Kumar, Malhar N.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: The increasing complexity of scientific research has been followed by increasing varieties of research misconduct. Dealing with misconduct involves the processes of detection, reporting, and investigation of misconduct. This article...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/08989620903328576

Authors: Lind, Rebecca Ann
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This pilot study evaluates the accessibility and usefulness of the research misconduct policies at the top-25 universities as ranked by NIH and NSF grant awards. Measuring accessibility demonstrates how readily-available policies ar...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1080/08989620500217560

Authors: Kennedy, Joseph P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on research involving human subjects from 1945 to 1949. Shock over Nazi conduct of human experimentation at concentration camps; Ethical rules for such experimentation; Judgment of the Nuremberg medical trial; Concerns expre...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Palaca, Joseph
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on scientific misconduct. Difficulty in identifying frauds; Cases involving the misuse of and fabrication of data; Improvements recommended by a 1993 Commission on Research Integrity chaired by reproductive biologist Kenneth...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Krueger, John W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on the forensic examination of questioned scientific images experienced by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Details on computer image processing techniques; Factors contributing to the increase incidence of questioned ...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1080/08989620212970

Authors: Koppelman-White, Elysa
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This article argues that the goal of ethics education is to fill the gaps that regulatory rules leave open, and that much of the current ethics education falls short. Since the gaps left by the rule are largely due to theoretical co...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1080/08989620600848611

Authors: Kumar, Malhar N.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: The author cites the need for research administrators to focus on the prevention rather than the detection of research misconduct, and describes six models of prevention in a way that allows institutions examine the advantages and ...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1080/08989621003641132

Authors: Pimple, Kenneth D.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Chris and Pat, two graduate students working on a interdisciplinary team who are studying race relations in a small rural town think that their advisor has made up quotations for an interviewee and published them in a paper....
Year: 1999
URL: http://mypage.iu.edu/~pimple/adventures.pdf

Authors: Davis, Mark S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Applying theories from sociological criminology, the author posits that the culture some researchers bring may be at odds with the norms of academic science and may emphasize ends more than means. As such, culture simply may be one ...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1080/08989620390250207

Authors: Broome, Marion ; Pryor, Erica ; Habermann, Barbara ; Pulley, Leavonne ; Kincaid, Harold
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: The overall purposes of this article are to report the development of a survey instrument, Scientific Misconduct Questionnaire-Revised (SMQ-R) that elicits the perceptions of research coordinators managing clinical trials about the ...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1080/08989620500440253

Authors: Braxton, John M. Bayer Alan E.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Discusses issues of impropriety and misconduct in the teaching role at the postsecondary level. The authors examine norms of teaching behavior, and how transgressions are detected and addressed. The authors explore how teaching norm...
Year: 1999
URL: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/99011238.html

Authors: Bell, Elmerine Allen Whitfield
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Reports on the amputation of the author's father's leg after it had been injected with plutonium. Author's testimony before the United States Congress regarding the incident; Analysis of the leg for radiation; Denial by a doctor of ...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1080/08989629808573925

Authors: Stone, Thomas ; Jawahar, I. ; Kisamore, Jennifer
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Business Ethics
Abstract: Recent, well-publicized scandals, involving unethical conduct have rekindled interest in academic misconduct. Along with focusing on situational factors (e.g., integrity culture, honor codes), demographic variables or personality co...
Year: 2007
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9260-9
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9260-9

Authors: Weinstein, Deena ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: This article discusses the question, is the core integrity of scientific research affected by fraud? ...
Year: 1981
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v1n3-4%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Schmaus, Warren
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses a number of recent cases involving fraud and misconduct in science, and how these cases have helped raise concern that there is quite a bit of fraud in science that passes undetected. However, the author argues that the in...
Year: 1981
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v1n3-4%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: This article discusses regulations passed by the Department of Health and Human Services in 1980 that allowed them to make individuals found guilty of fraud debarred from receiving financial assistance from that department. ...
Year: 1981
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v1n3-4%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Introduces a special issue of the newsletter, Perspectives on the Professions, that discusses scientific integrity, misconduct, and the ethics of scientific research. The issue includes a story about whistle blowing, an article disc...
Year: 1989
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v8n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Seng, Michael P.
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: Though other professions such as medicine, law and business have been willing to adopt ethics courses as part of their curriculum and professional review boards to oversee the ethical conduct of their members, university professors ...
Year: 1989
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v9n1%20perspective.pdf