Reporting Unethical Research Behavior

Neil S. Wenger, Stanley G. Korenman, Richard Berk and Honghu Liu
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Neil S. Wenger: University of California, Los Angeles
Stanley G. Korenman: University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Berk: University of California, Los Angeles
Honghu Liu: University of California, Los Angeles

Evaluation Review, 1999, vol. 23, issue 5, 553-570

Abstract: Scientists, as professionals, have a responsibility to self-regulate. However, whistleblowing is rare. We investigated scientists' infrequent disclosure of unethical behavior by studying their responses to scenarios describing unethical research acts and compared their responses to those of research administrators. A cross-sectional survey was administered to National Science Foundation–funded principal investigators and their institutions' representatives (IRs) to the Office of Research Integrity. Both scientists and IRs proposed to respond to nearly all research behaviors that they rated as unethical. Scientists more often proposed responses limited to the research team (58% vs. 25% of cases, p

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9902300504

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