Scientific Misconduct and Fraud within academia.

What is it about?

This is a book review on Scientific Misconduct and Fraud. Scientific Misconduct and Fraud should not take place, and yet we find many cases. Academic positions are associated with prestige, and there are ample incentives to engage in Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: data are concocted, texts copied or generated by AI tools, et cetera. Authorship is also frequently mis-appropriated. However, bad research appears to be an even more common ailment of academia.

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Why is it important?

Scientific Misconduct and Fraud is not only a problem for publishers or the scientific community at large, it is first and foremost a problem for the immediate surrounding of the researcher: he or she needs to be observed by critical peers. We do not want undue observations by colleagues or superiors, but we need a common sense approach in the course of the review of scientific work.