Misconduct

Authors: United States, Office of Research Integrity
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report gives the background on the formation of the Office of Research Integrity and discusses the improvements that have been made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the handling of research misconduct case...
Year: 1994
URL: http://ori.hhs.gov/documents/report_review_group.pdf

Authors: Rettinger, David A. ; Jordan, Augustus E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: A natural experiment was conducted studying the relations among student cheating, motivation, religiosity, and attitudes toward cheating. Students enrolled in a dual religious/college curriculum were surveyed regarding their cheatin...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.eacfaculty.org/pchidester/Eng%20102f/Plagiarism/Religion,%20Motivation,%20and%20College%20Cheating.pdf
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb1502_2

Authors: Rettinger, David A. ; Kramer, Yair
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Research in Higher Education
Abstract: The causes of students’ academic dishonesty behavior were explored using survey and experimental vignette methods. Participants were surveyed about their own cheating behavior, neutralizing attitudes, performance/mastery orientation...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ezproxy.gl.iit.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=36649930&site=ehost-live
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-008-9116-5

Authors: Vogel, Gretchen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: The article focuses on the falsification charge on a 2001 stem cell article by Morayma Reyes, a graduate of stem cell researcher Catherine Verfaillie's laboratory and now an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Wash...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1126/science.322.5900.356

Authors: Wang, J
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: hinese journals and scientific societies have embraced a new code of conduct designed to reduce the incidence of plagiarism, fabrication, and other acts of misconduct. The policies, adopted last month at a national meeting here, are...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5407.1427a

Authors: Vergano, Dan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: In a blow to a research area hungry for credible findings, the federal Office of Research Integrity reported last month that biochemist Robert P. Liburdy "engaged in scientific misconduct ... by intentionally falsifying and fabricat...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5424.23b

Authors: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Uri Plotkin, a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, has begun to re-evaluate data acquired by Lorenzo Adams and his colleague, Josh Smith, a former postdoc of Lorenzo's who is now an Associate Scientist at Harbor Branch....
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Email1.pdf

Authors: Weinberg, Robert A. ; Nichols, Eve ; Susskind, Lawrence E. ; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research ; Fink, Gerald R.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While trying to replicate an experiment done by a previous postdoc,Tom, Melanie Chang finds that she is unable to replicate his results and wonders if he might have fudged the data. She approaches her supervisor with her concerns, a...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Interviews.pdf

Authors: Service, Robert F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: According to a report released 25 September by a panel of independent investigators, Bell Labs physicist Jan Hendrik Schon faked experimental results in at least 17 published papers. Schon had been fired from Bell Labs the previous ...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/298/5591/30.full.pdf
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5591.30

Authors: Service, Robert F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Recent discoveries at Bell Laboratories said to be of Nobel quality suddenly became mired in questions last week. Outside researchers presented evidence to Bell Labs management on 10 May suggesting possible manipulation of data invo...
Year: 2002
DOI: 0.1126/science.296.5572.1376

Authors: Skolnick, Andrew
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
Abstract: Reports on scientific fraud charges and professional misconduct faced by Australian obstetrician William McBride. Relation of charges against him on his effort to show that the antimorning sickness drug Bendectin is teratogenic; Inf...
Year: 1990
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1990.03440110020003

Authors: Roig, Miguel ; Caso, Marissa
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Psychology
Abstract: Undergraduates reported their use of fraudulent excuses; 72% of the student participants claimed to have used a fraudulent excuse in college at least once. Grade point average was negatively correlated with all 3 measures but did n...
Year: 2005
URL: http://eng333.wikispaces.com/file/view/RoigCaso.pdf

Authors: LaFollette, Marcel C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Society
Abstract: This article discusses the phenomena of research misconduct. It is the fabrication, forgery, and misrepresentation of data and experiments, plagiarism, and misrepresentation of authorship during the proposing, doing, or communicatin...
Year: 1994
DOI: 10.1007/BF02693224

Authors: Laughlin, Robert B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Physics Today
Abstract: Discusses the issues dealing with misconduct among scientists in order to gain economic advantage from patents and discoveries. Emphasis on research linked to property; Fabrication of data by scientists; Disadvantage of ownership to...
Year: 2002
URL: ftp://large.stanford.edu/publications/2002/p01jul02/p01jul02.pdf

Authors: Handelsman, Jo
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: DNA & Cell Biology
Abstract: The article discusses the scientific misconducts, including plagiarism, fraud, data fabrication, and data theft, in and outside of the scientific community. The author says that these are the undeniably deliberate and egregious form...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2008.1501

Authors: May, William F. ; Flecher, John C. ; American Anthropological Association ; Cassell, Joan
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While setting up a study of interaction between physicians and parents of critically ill inner-city children, a young anthropologist contacted the chair of the Department of Pediatrics of the medical school affiliated with her unive...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/pubs/questionnaire.cfm

Authors: American Anthropological Association ; Jacobs, Sue-Ellen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Mickey Jordan has developed a collaborative social-impact assessment project involving two colleagues and three students. The six-person team was responsible for collecting field data in a wide geographical area at some distance fro...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/pubs/falsifieddata.cfm

Authors: Kaiser, Jocelyn
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Spotlights the controversy brewing over the federal government's definition of scientific misconduct. The definition being hammered out by an interagency White House panel called the Committee on Fundamental Science; Why the controv...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5299.467c

Authors: Kaiser, Jocelyn
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Discusses the significance of Linda Sundro expressing her views on the definition of research misconduct. Sundro's position as inspector-general of the US National Science Foundation; The rejection of a narrow definition of miscondu...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5320.1779c

Authors: Association of American Universities ; Council of Graduate Schools ; National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report gives a framework for how universities should handle allegations of research fraud....
Year: 1989
URL: http://www.aau.edu/reports/FrwkRschFraud.html

Authors: Jacobson, Jennifer
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Chronicle of Higher Education
Abstract: The article reports that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts has fired a biology professor who admitted he fabricated and falsified data in a paper, several manuscripts, and grant applications...
Year: 2005
URL: http://chronicle.com/article/MIT-Fires-Biology-Professor/20337

Authors: Foo, Jong Yong Abdiel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The original intention of scientific publication seems to have changed from sharing knowledge to becoming an assessment tool for researchers and research-based institutions. Due to this kind of pressure in the "publish or perish" at...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9212-8

Authors: Alfredo, Katherine ; Hart, Hillary
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper explores three seemingly disparate cases of misconduct- the 2004 plagiarism scandal at Ohio University, the famous Robert Milikan article of 1913 in which his reported data did not match his notebooks, and the 1990 fabric...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9217-3

Authors: Science Daily ; Peterson, M. J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This fictionalized case is based on the controversy surrounding a South Korean research scientist's recruitment of egg donors for his team's stem cell research from 2002-2005. The research team later came under international scrutin...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.umass.edu/sts/ethics/egg.html

Authors: Pascal, CB
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Proceedings of the Society For Experimental Biology and Medicine
Abstract: This paper describes the role of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a component of the Public Health Service (PHS), in defining scientific misconduct in research supported with PHS funds and in establishing standards for respon...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.ebm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/224/4/220