Scientific misconduct and accountability in teams

Scientific Misconduct.

Scientific misconduct has been defined as fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. Scientific misconduct has occurred throughout the history of science. The US government began to take systematic interest in such misconduct in the 1980s. Since then, a number of studies have examined how frequently individual scientists have observed scientific misconduct or were involved in it. Although the ...

Misconduct in scientific publications.

Individual Accountability in Teams

We consider a team production problem in which the principal observes only the team output and not individual effort. As is well known, inefficiencies may arise when each team member’s compensation is based only on his individual action, so that team members are not penalized or rewarded as a group, as is often the case in practice. We show that it is possible to overcome this problem by specif...

Coping with scientific misconduct.

author (which had been accepted but not yet published) that also seemed to be plagiarised. However, the author’s hospital did not respond. In another of the four cases (09-11), an editor had concerns about the ethics of a trial of a homoeopathic treatment for HIV/AIDS. The editor was concerned that patients may have been denied effective antiretroviral treatment and wanted clarification about h...

Scientific misconduct, retractions, and errata.