TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding Research Misconduct
T2 - A Comparative Analysis of 120 Cases of Professional Wrongdoing
AU - DuBois, James M.
AU - Anderson, Emily E.
AU - Chibnall, John
AU - Carroll, Kelly
AU - Gibb, Tyler
AU - Ogbuka, Chiji
AU - Rubbelke, Timothy
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was supported by grants UL1RR024992 and 1R21RR026 313 from the NIH-National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), UL1TR 000448 from the National Center for Translational Science, and a seed grant from the BF Charitable Foundation.
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - We analyzed 40 cases of falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism (FFP), comparing them to other types of wrongdoing in research (n = 40) and medicine (n = 40). Fifty-one variables were coded from an average of 29 news or investigative reports per case. Financial incentives, oversight failures, and seniority correlate significantly with more serious instances of FFP. However, most environmental variables were nearly absent from cases of FFP and none were more strongly present in cases of FFP than in other types of wrongdoing. Qualitative data suggest FFP involves thinking errors, poor coping with research pressures, and inadequate oversight. We offer recommendations for education, institutional investigations, policy, and further research.
AB - We analyzed 40 cases of falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism (FFP), comparing them to other types of wrongdoing in research (n = 40) and medicine (n = 40). Fifty-one variables were coded from an average of 29 news or investigative reports per case. Financial incentives, oversight failures, and seniority correlate significantly with more serious instances of FFP. However, most environmental variables were nearly absent from cases of FFP and none were more strongly present in cases of FFP than in other types of wrongdoing. Qualitative data suggest FFP involves thinking errors, poor coping with research pressures, and inadequate oversight. We offer recommendations for education, institutional investigations, policy, and further research.
KW - fabrication
KW - falsification
KW - historiometry
KW - plagiarism
KW - professional misbehavior
KW - research misconduct
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884344539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08989621.2013.822248
DO - 10.1080/08989621.2013.822248
M3 - Article
C2 - 24028480
AN - SCOPUS:84884344539
SN - 0898-9621
VL - 20
SP - 320
EP - 338
JO - Accountability in Research
JF - Accountability in Research
IS - 5-6
ER -