Research Misconduct—Definitions, Manifestations and Extent

Lutz Bornmann ()

Publications, 2013, vol. 1, issue 3, 1-12

Abstract: In recent years, the international scientific community has been rocked by a number of serious cases of research misconduct. In one of these, Woo Suk Hwang, a Korean stem cell researcher published two articles on research with ground-breaking results in Science in 2004 and 2005. Both articles were later revealed to be fakes. This paper provides an overview of what research misconduct is generally understood to be, its manifestations and the extent to which they are thought to exist.

Keywords: misconduct; plagiarism; fabrication and falsification of data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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