Questions tagged [research-misconduct]
On suspected or actual distortion of the research and/or research publication process through dishonest or otherwise unethical behavior. Includes (but is not limited to) issues such as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, violation of ethical standards related to human subjects research, and theft of intellectual property.
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Harms of retracting a cited paper from a conference? [closed]
Asking from a follow-up post: Submitted paper to A* ML conference with known mistakes before camera-ready deadline a year ago, what should I do?
I co-authored a dataset/benchmark paper at a major, ...
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How do I deal with a supervisor who wants to replace bioinformatics expertise with ChatGPT, especially when it comes to publishing?
My PhD supervisor who is exclusively wet-lab (in plant genetics) has recently started running scripts that ChatGPT has written for him (he has no experience whatsoever in bioinformatics, based on what ...
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I found academic misconduct in a paper I co-authored, should I report it?
I am the third author of a peer-reviewed journal article because of some contribution in writing and revising the paper. Recently, I found most of the research work in this paper was done by a ...
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Being removed from acknowledgements despite contributing to the paper
(I'm an academic in the applied mathematics (PDEs) community in Europe).
Last year I had many discussions with a colleague of mine (call him X) which helped him in creating the results that went into ...
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What are advantages and disadvantages of transferring a #MeToo or similar approach to academic power abuse? [closed]
As also mentioned in this recent Nature article, academia can sometimes involve cases of power abuse, especially affecting graduate students and researchers with limited power and strong dependency on ...
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How to handle exclusion from authorship after substantial contribution to a collaborative research project?
I’m looking for advice on how to deal with an authorship dispute involving a recent collaborative research project in structural biology.
Last year, I was invited by a postdoctoral researcher from ...
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When are duplicates scientific error and when are they misconduct?
In a researcher's paper, they reported on two datasets with small sample sizes (n = 30-38). I found two duplicates in two two datasets, so a total of four. Seems like an innocuous issue that can ...
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Is it necessary to report a researcher if you are sure of academic misconduct?
Today, I was casually browsing through articles and got extremely surprised by the quality of one article. What I noticed first was that all figure panels were messy, figure legends were nonsense, and ...
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Do authors publish how they calculate/results of their reliability tests? [closed]
I am in political science.
I was a research assistant and contributed to a project as a coder, but not much else. I wasn't too impressed with the project, I coded stuff but there was no way this would ...
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Is missing data necessarily seen as fraud?
I normally work on system identification, focusing on continuous-time fractional-order models. In many occasions I perform Monte Carlo runs to test my algorithms' performances. I became aware after a ...
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Why do individuals with revoked master’s/PhD degrees due to plagiarism or misconduct not return to retake them?
I’m curious about individuals who have had their master’s or PhD degrees revoked specifically for academic misconduct (e.g., plagiarism, exam misconduct), rather than personal misconduct, super ...
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Why does medical research have by far the highest retraction rate of any science?
Looking at the Retraction Watch Leaderboard,
knzhou commented:
the main common feature among the top 10 isn't that they're Japanese, it's that they're almost all medical researchers. Medical research ...
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How to address past academic misconduct as a new faculty member?
Many years ago, as an undergraduate student in a country with limited research opportunities, I was eager to apply for a master's degree. I visited a lab at my university where, despite my lack of ...
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How should I handle a consistent academic misconduct by a certain group of researchers
I recently encountered an incident in our research field where a group of researcher falsely claimed credit for our work in their publications. They have been consistently publishing papers containing ...
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Can my former PhD supervisor publish my research work without my permission? [duplicate]
I have been working as a research assistant at one of the U.S universities for 4 year. Generally, I was not in a good relationship with my PhD supervisor. After the graduation, I found that my PhD ...
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I was part of a research work, but not going to be included in the paper
I'm a student. I was part of a collaboration with a different lab. I worked extensively with another student (and sometimes alone) for several months to produce material that was later used in the ...
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Can preprint withdrawals lead to retraction of articles prior to the preprint?
I was a participant in research/“quality improvement” without informed consent that was life threatening. There has been an IRB investigation going on since June. And an investigation by a publisher ...
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Master thesis report submitted for official record is different to the report graded by my supervisor
I am doing a master's study in a German university. I had some setbacks during my master thesis project's lab work. This delayed the time I had available to write my report later on. The setbacks ...
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I botched the author and date of a reference – is this misconduct?
In a homework assignment, I wrote the wrong author and date with the title of the article in reference. Would it be counted as academic misconduct?
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Is it wrong for students to report suspected / borderline plagiarism?
Last year I came across a student in our department (we are both PhD students) who copied a journal article in her final paper. To be sure, she didn’t copy the article word from word but did use the ...
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Not included as an author in 2 publications [duplicate]
Tldr: I was not included as one of the authors of 2 papers. What to do?
History: Around 2.5 years ago I started a PhD. I was producing very good results and my supervisor was very happy because there ...
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PhD supervisor with cases of scientific misconduct
I started my PhD with my present supervisor a couple of years back. Her profile looked interesting. However, suddenly her previous work started receiving comments on publicly available domains (...
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Is this a form of plagiarism? [closed]
Recently, I had an author contact me regarding naming me as a consultant on a project of theirs, rather than co-author, if I was to contribute. No fee was discussed at all.
Was it a form of plagiarism ...
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How should I investigate and respond to a potentially false claim of a publication in the CV of an applicant?
I was reviewing an application for a grant and found out that one of the applicants has included a publication on his CV that does not exist in the journal. It was supposedly published several years ...
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can anyone else submit my thesis behalf of me [closed]
I did an undergraduate thesis with my partner. It don't have any missed, wrong or theft information. I was ill and long away from my dorm that time. So I told my partner to print and submit it. He had ...
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