Deceit and fraud in medical research – Publish or perish culture is to blame

Fraud and deceit in medical research

Publication of medical research is the cornerstone for the propagation and dissemination of medical knowledge, culminating in significant effects on the health of the world's population. However, instances of individuals and institutions subverting the ethos of honesty and integrity on which medical research is built in order to advance personal ambitions have been well documented. Many definit...

Publish or perish, publish and perish.

Aiming the internationalization, BDS intensifies actions for establishing multidisciplinary partnerships, for searching institutional support, and for educating the national scientific community about the importance of valuing national science. The media for exposing this knowledge must be a national media. Publishing quality Brazilian science in national journals using international language m...

Publish or Perish ( 3 ) – Fraud and ethics Alfred

The famous Dutch writer Gerard van het Reve once said that he was unquestionably a very evil and pestilential person. Not surprisingly, he added, as most human beings have a wicked nature. He believed that half of the depravity was inborn and the other half by human's own choice. Much of what van het Reve wrote was bordering on nonsense written in a brilliant way, but in my darker moments or wh...

Publish or perish?

Publish or perish

When scientists bemoan the relentless pressure to publish or perish, they rarely spare a thought for the effect of this pressure on the publisher. For some reason, the publisher, and minions such as editors, are blamed for being the main barrier to the process of publication. At the same time, publishers are blamed for the ridiculous proliferation in journals of all kinds, especially those that...