The NIH has required researchers to receive instruction about responsible conduct for more than 20 years, but misconduct is still on the rise.
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Using plagiarism detection software, the NSF’s internal watchdog has found almost 100 suspicious cases among the 8,000 projects the agency funded in 2011.
The minister of education and research has stepped down after being stripped of her doctorate following accusations of plagiarism.
The German minister for science and education has been stripped of her PhD after she was found guilty of plagiarizing chunks of the dissertation she wrote in 1980.
The authors of a review article on genome-wide association studies have retracted the paper due to “substantial textual overlap” with other sources.
An analysis of retractions dating back to 1977 shows that most papers are retracted due to misconduct.
Retractions of scientific studies due to plagiarism, falsification, and other instances of researchers behaving badly have skyrocketed in the past decade.
The country vows to curb misconduct in scholarly publishing.
A physician doing a residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center was caught copying sections of text and an illustration in multiple NIH-funded papers.
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