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Misconduct in academic publication: how big is the problem and how can researchers avoid it?

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  • UserLiz Wager, Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and author of Getting Research Published (Radcliffe Publishing)
  • ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 20:00-21:00
  • HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

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A handful of high-profile fraud cases hit the headlines every year. Recent examples include the Hwang cloning case from Korea and the Schön nanotechnology case from Germany. Such cases raise questions about whether peer review can be expected to detect fraud and how much resource journals should invest in such procedures. Some argue that serious cases of data fabrication represent such an extreme of aberrant behaviour that we cannot hope to prevent them or are so rare that the costs of policing the vast majority of innocent work outweighs the possible benefits. Others believe editors should focus on less dramatic forms of misconduct and questionable behaviour which, being more common, might actually have a more harmful effect on the research literature.

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