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A discussion of the common underpinning problems with the scientific and data analytic practices and point to tools and behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the problems with published scientific results.
After a series of scandals in Nordic science, Denmark and Sweden are rethinking how they investigate allegations of academic fraud and misconduct.
An Australian neuroscientist just pleaded guilty to fraud but received a suspended sentence for his research misconduct.
Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says.
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli.
In the race to apply for research funding, writing statements about future impact can feel like a charade.
A new study shows that p-values have become more popular — and more meaningless — over time.
Alok Jha examines the practices and cultures that can undermine the integrity of science.
Our reverence for science has led to a culture of "new findings" and sensationalistic headlines.
The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning.
Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? After years of covering science in the news, Alok Jha began to wonder whether science is as rigorous as it should be.
Despite the real-time scrutiny of internet publication, getting a paper retracted or corrected turns out to be nearly impossible.
It may not be sexy, but quality assurance is becoming a crucial part of lab life.
Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop explain how the research community should protect its members from harassment, while encouraging the openness that has become essential to science.
Researchers are “choosing their lottery numbers after seeing the draw”, making medicine less reliable - and respected journals are letting them do it.
Some papers cite the retracted work to examine the retraction itself. Others may simply be pointing out that the findings of a withdrawn paper have been proven false.
Analyzing three decades' worth of PubMed-indexed abstracts, scientists find a notable increase in the frequency of positive words, like "innovative" and "novel", over time.
‘Too many institutions’ are ready to ‘sweep fraud under the carpet’.
The distribution of p-values in reported medical abstracts provides evidence for systematic error in the reporting of p-values..
Research shifted focus away from harms of sugary drinks to exercise benefits.
The question has actually been addressed in the scientific literature and the data don’t seem to support this assumption.
A debate is growing in the research world over the value of replicating older, peer-reviewed studies.
We need to ensure the reward and support structures in academia promote the best practices rather than corner cutting.
In a four-paragraph editorial published in 2014, the "Journal of Criminal Justice" made 47 citations, all of other pieces that had appeared in the same publication.
According to a new paper, the "deluge" of new scientific papers that academics have to read makes it all but impossible to know what research to trust.
Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.
‘Overflow’ has important implications for the integrity of modern biomedical science.
After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.
