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In research, sometimes things go wrong. The reasons are diverse and not always easy to identify. Here you will find a selection of research ethics and research integrity cases, to learn from mistakes and foster debate around them.

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P-Values on Trial: Selective Reporting of (Best Practice Guides Against) Selective Reporting
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Paxil Study Under Fire
GSK, Evans(2001)
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Payment in different contexts: How can payment reflect local considerations?
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Payments to young researchers in Malawi
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Peer review
fictional(fictional)
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Perioperative Mischief: The Price of Academic Misconduct
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Philosopher Earns 14th Retraction for Plagiarism
Retraction Watch(2010)
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Pirated Idea for Research
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Plagiarism Charge for Romanian Minister
(2004)
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Plagiarism and Fabrication in Public Health Research at Harvard
Ali Sultan(2004)
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Plagiarism charge for Romanian minister - Scandal adds to fears that country’s research reform is in peril
Ioan Mang(2012)
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Plagiarism in a PhD Thesis
Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty(2011)
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Plagiarism scandal grows in Iran
Hamid Behbahani, Hassan Ziari(2005, 2012)
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Plagiarism, Voluntary Settlement Agreements and Public Health Service Grants
Alan L. Landay(1987)
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Political points
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Possible Conflict of Interest
Archaeologist
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Possible omission of information essential for conclusions in a research paper
(2014)
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Postdoc randomly chose data during figure assembly
Cenk Kig(2017)
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Potential figure manipulation with corresponding author uncontactable
(2017)
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Power to the People
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Premature release of clinical trials data
Orexigen, Steve Nissen(2015)
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Pressure to disclose confidential research findings
final year phd student,, interview committee(fictional)
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Privacy
American Sociological Association
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Procrastinating Researcher Delegates Grant Reviews to Trainee
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Procrastinating Reviewer
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Prominent Video Game-Violence Researcher Loses Another Paper to Retraction
(31-8-2018)
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Protecting Research Subjects
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Protecting peer review: Correspondence chronology and ethical analysis
Nikos K. Logothetis, Amir Shmuel, David Leopold(2008)
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Protecting peer review: Correspondence chronology and ethical analysis regarding logothetis vs. shmuel and leopold
Nikos K. Logothetis, Amir Shmuel, David Leopold(2008)
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Protocol Violations Putting Animal Subjects in Harm’s Way
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Psychologist made up sex bias results
Karen Ruggiero(2001)
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Psychologist made up sex bias results
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Psychology Grad Student Faked Data
(7-3-2013)
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Public Health Practice vs Research
Department of Public Health, Human Investigations Committee, Department of Health and Human Services, National Bioethics Advisory Commission
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Publication and data ownership
fictional(fictional)
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Publishing complications and patient safety
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Questioning a Mentor
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Rainy Days for a Struggling Mentee
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Rampant Plagiarism in Two Journals
Science Reuters, Insight Knowledge(22-5-2013, 2013)
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Reaction to bias
fictional(fictional)
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Records From Controversial Twin Study Sealed at Yale Until 2065
(1-10-2018)
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Reflections on the Cleveland Clinic Study of The Batista Operation
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Reporting Adverse Effects
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Reporting Findings in a Timely Manner
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Reporting Full Findings
American Sociological Association
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Reporting violations
fictional(fictional)
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Reproducibility of methodology
COPE
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Research Ethics – Official GRAD 5104 Blog - Blogs@VT
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Research Ethics: Zero Tolerance
(2008)
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Research Integrity and Conflicts of Interest: The Case of Unethical Research-Misconduct Charges
(2000, 2011)
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Research Integrity: Sabotage!
Vipul Bhrigu(2009)
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Research Integrity: the Experience of a Doubting Thomas
Beloqui Ana(2010)
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Research Problems at Australian University Hit the News
Retraction Watch(19-4-2018)
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Research Reproducibility
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Research by Students
American Sociological Association
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Research ethics committee conditions: Ethical challenges of researching with poor communities in Malawi
(2020)
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Research fraud on MMR vaccines
(1998)
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Research misconduct and the INTERGROWTH-21st study
INTERGROWTH-21st Study, José Villar, Stephen Kennedy, University of Oxford(2017)
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Research misconduct in a grant application for the National Institutes of Health
James C. Lin(2006)
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Research or Services?
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Research published by Hans Eysenck is unsafe
Hans Eysenck, Ronald Grossarth-Maticek(2019)
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Research with human subjects
fictional(fictional)
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Researcher 'Cherry Picked' Data, University Investigation Finds
Retraction Watch(24-10-2017)
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Researcher Accused of Breaching Research Ethics Faces GMC
(2001)
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Researcher discovers paper published by co-author in another journal
Ahmad Bilal, Albert Jambon(2015)
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Researchers Call For the Release of Findings of a Misconduct Investigation
(2010)
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Researchers Pressured to Store Animal Subjects
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Resident physician plagiarises publications supported by 10 National Institutes of Health grants
Jayant Jagannathan(2005, 2011)
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Respondent Confidentiality
American Sociological Association
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Retracted WHO Reports on Opioid Guidelines
Retraction Watch(10-1-2020)
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Retracted gay-marriage study debated at misconduct meet-up
Michael LaCour(2015)
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Retraction notice - fake email peer-review
SevcanAytac Korkmaz(2016)
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Retraction of Savine, McDaniel, Shelton, and Scullin
Adam C. Savine(2013)
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Reusing Biopsy Material in New Publications, Image Manipulation and Fraudulent Research Protocols
Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, Danish Eastern High Court(2011-2015)
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Reviewer’s Déjà Vu, French Science Sleuthing Uncover Plagiarized Papers
(2006)
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Rights to Authorship
American Sociological Association
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Rising Publication Delays Inflate Journal Impact Factors
Adriano B. L. Tort, Zé H. Targino, Olavo B. Amaral(2012)
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Robbers, Rogues or Revolutionaries: Handling Armed Intimidation
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Robbing the Grave: Investigator Takes Ownership of Deceased Scholar’s Work
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Romanian Scientists Fight Plagiarism
(2011)
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Rules of Data-Sharing in Collaborative and Non-Collaborative Research
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Rules of Data-Sharing in Collaborative and Non-Collaborative Research
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Sabotage and the Federal Definition of Research Misconduct
(2009)
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Scandalous behaviour at Medical University of Innsbruck
Hannes Strasser, Georg Bartsch(2008)
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Science and Surveillance: Western Institutions Consider Role in China’s Uighur Crackdown
(2019)
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Scientific Misconduct and the Myth of Self-Correction in Science
(2012)
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Scientific Misconduct at an Elite Medical Institute: The Role of Competing Institutional Logics and Fragmented Control
(2010)
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Scientific Research: Dilemmas and Temptations (booklet of cases)
KNAW Netherlands(2005)
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Scientist Ousted From Cancer Study Declines to Testify to House Panel
(1985-1990)
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Scientists in Chile Protest Mummy Study
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Selection bias in skull measurements
Stephen Jay Gould(2011)
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Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
COPE
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Self-plagiarism case prompts calls for agencies to tighten rules
Reginald Smith(2010)
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Selling Out? Making Deals with Other Institutions
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Serbian Journal Lands in Hot Water After Challenge on 24 hour Peer Review That Cost 1785 euros
(7-7-2014)
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Serious Accusation of Negligence of Ethical Principles in Human Sciences
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity, TENK(2017)
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: Another Magazine Surprise
Senior Researcher(2000)
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Background Section
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Duplicate Publication
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Instant Paper
Student(2000)
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Magazine Surprise
(2000)
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Professional Manual
Senior Researcher(2000)
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Review Article
Senior Researcher(2000)
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Seven Ways to Plagiarise: The Unauthorised Translation
(2000)
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Show Me The Money!
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Simultaneous Submission Leading to Duplicate Publication
(2008)
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Site Unseen
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Sitting in Judgement
(1999)
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Slow Code
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Speculations and Ethical Concerns in the Conduct of Outsourced Clinical Trials in India
(2017)
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Springer Nature ‘continuing to investigate the concerns raised’ about paper linking obesity and lying
(26/8/20)
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Statements About Professional Experience
American Sociological Association
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Statistical Forensics. Check Rightmost Digits for Uniform Distribution
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Studying Vulnerable Individuals
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Studying colonial artefacts with integrity
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Suborning science for profit: Monsanto, glyphosate, and private science research misconduct
Monsanto
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Successful and timely uptake of artificial intelligence in science in the EU
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Suspected image manipulation involving four journals
(2015)
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Suspected image manipulation involving four journals
(2015)
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Swedish plastics study fabricated, panel finds
Oona Lönnstedt(2015)
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Teaching about the First World War today: Historical empathy and participatory citizenship
Martyn Davison(7-12-2017)
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Technician Error Leads to Harm of Animal Subjects
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Teenage Youth and Coercion
American Sociological Association
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Ten journals denied 2020 Impact Factors because of excessive self-citation or “citation stacking”
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Ten short cases on publication ethics
(2012)
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The AAP report on circumcision: Bad science + bad ethics = bad medicine
AAP(27/5/2013)
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The Aftermath of Scientific Fraud
(2000, 2005)
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The Art and Politics of Covert Research: Doing ‘Situated Ethics’ in the Field
(1996)
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The Case of Falsified Data
Anthropologists
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The Case of the Damaged Baby
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The Case of the Egyptian Travel Agent
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The Case of the Missing Artefact
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The Dutch anthropologist making up data and papers
Mart Bax(2020)
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The Epistemic Integrity of Scientific Research
Merck & Co(2001)
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The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in Conflict Zones
Elisabeth Jean Wood(2006)
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The Ethics of Collecting Genetic Data From Indigenous People
(2009)
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The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Research Funding: A Social Organization Approach
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The Ethics of Public Health Research on Less Expensive, Less Effective Interventions
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The Extent and Causes of Academic Text Recycling or ‘Self-Plagiarism’
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The Ghost Collaborator
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The Hazardous Consent Forms
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The Legacy of the Hwang Case: Research Misconduct in Biosciences
(2004, 2005, 2009)
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The Limits of Expertise
American Sociological Association
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The Nutty Professor
N/A(N/A)
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The Olivieri Debacle: Where Were the Heroes of Bioethics?
(1995)
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The Orphan Embryos: A Case Study in Bioethics
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The Paroxetine 352 Bipolar Trial: A Study in Medical Ghostwriting
SmithKline Beecham (SKB), Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), American Journal of Psychiatry(1994)
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The REAPPRAISED checklist to identify flawed papers
Yoshihiro Sato, Jun Iwamoto(2003, 2015)
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The Replication Crisis in Psychology
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The Runaway Wife
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The Saga of Korean Women Who Provided Eggs for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(2004)
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The Suspect Questionnaire
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The Swiss Report on Homeopathy: A Case Study of Research Misconduct
(2012)
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The Tadpole Paper Mill
Elisabeth Bik(21/2/2020)
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The Teaching of Controversial Issues During Elementary-Level History Instruction: Greek-Cypriot Teachers' Perceptions and Emotions
Michalinos Zembylas, Froso Kambani(2012)
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The Threat to Scientific Integrity in Environmental and Occupational Medicine
International Commission on Occupational Health, Union of Concerned Scientists(1955-1995)
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The Three Rs of Animal Research
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The Unfortunate Experiment
(1966-1980, 1988)
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The Use of Students as Participants in a Study of Eating Disorders in a Developing Country: Case Study in the Ethics of Mental Health Research
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The Whistleblower and Penn: A Final Accounting of Study 352
(29-12-2019, 2019)
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The Wild West of Animal Experimentation
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The extent and causes of academic text recycling or ‘self-plagiarism’
Peter Nijkamp(2015)
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The future of scientific justice: the case of The Sceptical Environmentalist
Lomborg Bjorn(2001)
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The publication of controversial views
Bruce Gilley(2017)
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The rector who resigned after plagiarizing a student’s PhD thesis
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The role of moral philosophy in the divide between science and non-science
(1993 - 2006)
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To Accept or Not to Accept
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To Medicate or Not to Medicate
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Tongan children’s involvement in research
(2015)
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Traver paper: The Unique Case of a Published Delusion
(1951)
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U.S. Finds Misconduct by Ex-Researchers at Chicago and UCSF
(2014)
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U.S. Gov’t Physicist Sentenced to 18 months in Prison for Fraud
(2016)
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U.S. gov’t researchers withdraw climate paper after using pseudonyms
Ned Nikolov, Karl Zeller(2015)
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UK Research Integrity Office's Case Study Collection
UKRIO
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UNE in Row Over Bullying Survey
(2014)
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Unhelpful retraction notice about a study that received favourable media attention
Luo Diwei(2020)
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University Investigation Finds Misconduct by Bone Researcher with 23 Retractions
(6-12-2017)
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Unlicensed usage of medical devices on patients: a case of accusations
(7-6-2011)
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Up, Up, and Away: Clinical Trials Go International
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Valley of Sorrow
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Veterinary scientist fabricates data and manipulates images
Shin-Hee Kim(2020)
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Vulnerable Populations
American Sociological Association
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Want to make sure your paper gets published? Just do your own peer review like this researcher did
Yongdeng Lei(20/03/2014)
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Wellcome Open Research
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What Universities can Learn from one of Science’s Biggest Frauds
(2016)
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What happens when an ex-physicist writes about gender identity?
Stephen Gliske(2019)
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What is Recklessness in Scientific Research?
(2011)
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What my retraction taught me
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What should a journal do when a scientist who committed misconduct submits a new paper?
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What's in That Bottle? What's in That Pipe?
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When Sociologists Deceive Their Subjects
(1997)
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When is Advanced Training Necessary?
N/A(N/A)
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Where are they now?
Jon Sudbo, Hwang Woo-Suk, Schön Jan Hendrik, Imanishi-Kari, Luk Van Parisj, Bengü Sezen, Shinichi Fujimura, Andres Pape Moller
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Whistle blowing
fictional(fictional)
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Whistle-blower Claims his Accusations Cost him his Job
University of Wisconsin(2009)
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Who Owns the Field Notes
Anthropologists
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Who Rules the Ruler? On the Misconduct of Journal Editors
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Who will mentor the mentors?
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Withholding Study Purpose
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Witness to Murder
Anthropologists
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Would You Do a Post Doc with this Guy?
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You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
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You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
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You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
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‘Caught in the act’: Veterinary researcher caught fabricating gene data, resigns from university job
Ryan Evanoff(16/12/2020)
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“There can be no justification for such studies”: Paper on artificial eyes for dogs earns expression of concern
Kyung-Mee Park(15/01/2021)
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