Misconduct

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Huerta, Marcos Garcia de la
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses how the 20 years under the dictatorship of Pinochet has left a deep imprint on professional and business ethics, leading to unbalanced economic policies, abuses of power in politics and business, and the virtual dismantlin...
Year: 1991
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v11n1%20perspective.pdf

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; Whitbeck, Caroline
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper develops an overview of the subject of trustworthiness among researchers. Beginning with the breaches of trust that constitute major wrongdoing in research misconduct, Whitbeck argues that these are more often examples of...
Year: 1995
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/RespResearch/ResEssays/cw2.aspx

Authors: Laas, Kelly ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This bibliography contains references that address general falsifcation, fabrication, plagiarism, and cheating along with resources for instructors and studies of the prevalence of these behaviors....
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Bibliographies/FalsificationBib.aspx

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; Flatley, David J. ; Alferone, Jana
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Ethics in the Science Classroom
Abstract: This is a model lesson plan for integrating ethics into a high school level science class. Lesson 7 discusses fraud and scientific misconduct in the research environment....
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/precollege/scienceclass/lessonplans/lesson7.aspx

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S. ; Goldfarb, Theodore ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Secondary Title: Ethics in the Science Classroom
Abstract: Case Study 1 of six cases presented during a Summer Institute instructional program. Case Study 1 discusses researchers and fabrication of data through analysis of the John Darsee Case, a brilliant young medical researcher who falsi...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/precollege/scienceclass/sectone/cs1.aspx

Authors: Riis, Povl
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article looks at a survey of cases of scientific misconduct from the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty's first five years of collecting data to look at the underlying psychological motivations of the researchers for bre...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-000-0020-4

Authors: Youngner, JS
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association
Abstract: This article is written by a scientist who has served on two Research Integrity Adjudications Panels at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and reflects on the review process for alleged research misconduct. The author ...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Stewart, WW ; Feder, N
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: A case of admitted scientific fraud has shed new light on the system that ensures the integrity of the scientific literature. Certain lapses from generally accepted standards of research may be more frequent than is commonly believe...
Year: 1987
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=3808019

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Janet thinks that her friend Mary's approach to school work is troubling. While she has never cheated on exam, Mary does seem to place excessive reliance on the help of other students in her classes, often working with others on tak...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Cheating%20Friend.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A student comes to the office of the Dean of students complaining about behavior in the residence hall. Ethnic slurs have been written on his door, shaving cream has been spread out over his belongings in the bathroom, and his car ...
Year: 1994
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Dean.pdf

Authors: Woell, John W. ; Pawar. Sheela ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Birch, Brian D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: When Robert Novak revealed the name of Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA agent, a chain of events was set in motion that few anticipated. Novak, a nationally syndicated columnist, stated in his column of July 14, 2003, that "Valerie Pla...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Birch%20Case%20Study-The%20CIA%20Leak%20Investigation.pdf

Authors: Fanelli, D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Plos One
Abstract: The frequency with which scientists fabricate and falsify data, or commit other forms of scientific misconduct is a matter of controversy. Many surveys have asked scientists directly whether they have committed or know of a colleagu...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005738

Authors: Firmin, Michael W. ; Burger, Amanda ; Blosser, Matthew
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Educational Research Quarterly
Abstract: For this study, 82 general psychology students (51 females, 31 males) witnessed a peer cheating while completing a test. Following the incident, we tape recorded semi-structured interviews with each student who saw the cheating even...
Year: 2009

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Authors: Etter, Stephanie ; Cramer, Jackie J. ; Finn, Seth
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Research on Technology in Education
Abstract: Growing perceptions that students exploit information technology to evade academic assignments prompted surveys of student attitudes about unethical uses of information technology (e.g., cutting and pasting excerpts from Web sites w...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.eacfaculty.org/pchidester/Eng%20102f/Plagiarism/Origins%20of%20Academic%20Dishonesty.pdf

Authors: Martinson, BC ; De Vries, Raymond ; Anderson, Melissa S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics : An International Journal
Abstract: Those concerned with protecting the Integrity of science generally focus on the serious but rare infractions of falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism (FFP). While the violations of FFP are clear threats to the quality of scient...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16810336
DOI: 10.1525/jer.2006.1.1.43

Authors: Couzin, Jennifer
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: The article reports that a rising star at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hot field of RNA interference (RNAi) was dismissed last week after admitting that he had fabricated and falsified data in grant applica...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1126/science.310.5749.758a

Authors: Bouville, Mathieu
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Philosophy & Education
Abstract: Since cheating is obviously wrong, arguments against it (it provides an unfair advantage, it hinders learning) need only be mentioned in passing. But the argument of unfair advantage absurdly takes education to be essentially a race...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11217-009-9148-0

Authors: Dalton, Rex
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Reports on cases of scientific fraud in 2002. Scientist Jan Hendrik Schon's falsification of data in research papers published in the periodicals 'Nature' and 'Science'; Physicist Viktor Ninov's fabrication of data to create heavy e...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6917/full/420728a.html
DOI: 10.1038/420728a

Authors: Budd, J. M. ; Sievert, M. ; Schultz, T. R. ; Scoville, C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Bull Med Libr Assoc
Abstract: At times, there are reasons for authors to make a formal statement of retraction of work they publish in biomedical journals. This study examines 235 retracted articles and looks at the reasons for these retractions and citations to...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC226618/pdf/mlab00089-0069.pdf

Authors: Bramstedt, Katrina A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Clinical & Investigative Medicine
Abstract: Purpose: This study explores the ethical issues contained in warning letters issued to clinical researchers by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA. Methods: The online FDA Warning Letter Index was reviewed for letters ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15305804

Authors: CHPS Consulting
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This report presents an analysis of the content of institutional policies for responding to allegations of scientific misconduct conducted for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Research Integrity (ORI). The repo...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ori.hhs.gov/documents/institutional%5Fpolicies.pdf

Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports that post doctoral fellow Kristin Roovers has been suspended by the Ottawa Health Research Institute after learning that she had manipulated and falsified data published in several papers in the United States. In...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1038/453969d

Authors: Abbott, Alison ; Schwarz, Johanna
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Reports on investigation into misconduct in German cancer research. Names of the cancer researchers being investigated; Extent of the fabrication in the German cancer research papers; Findings of the task force involved in the inqui...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1038/418113a

Authors: Al-Marzouki, Sanaa ; Evans, Stephen ; Marshall, Tom ; Roberts, Ian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: BMJ: British Medical Journal
Abstract: To test the application of statistical methods to detect data fabrication in a clinical trial, the authors looked at the baseline comparisons of means and variances of cardiovascular risk factors, digit preference overall and its pa...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.331.7511.267

Authors: Marshall, Tom ; Evans, Stephen ; Al-Marzouki, Sanaa ; Roberts, Ian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Contemporary Clinical Trials
Abstract: In order to discover what types of scientific misconduct are most likely to influence the results of a clinical trial, the authors conducted a Delphi survey of expert opinion with three rounds of consultation. The study identified t...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2005.01.011