Concept

Scientific misconduct

Overview

Scientific misconduct is the violation of ethical and professional standards in research, including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and other practices that compromise the integrity of the design, conduct, analysis, reporting, or publication of scientific or research findings.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• National Science Foundation
• Plagiarism
• The Guardian
• Peer review
• Truth
• Nature (journal)
• Experiment
• Ethics

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of science.

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