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RE: Forensic Approach to Cheaters

in #science7 years ago

It's a shame. The accepted figure for fraud is close to 2% for all scientists. 1 Of course, the least fraudulent are astrophysicists and the most fraudulent are in the biomedical field, 2/3 of the retracted papers are due to scientist misconduct (>45% alleged fraud)2 rather than to error, specially with images :'(

1 Fanelli D (2009) How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data. PLoS ONE4(5): e5738.

2 Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications
F. Fang-R. Steen-A. Casadevall - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - 2012