Most cases of research misconduct go undetected, conference told

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Most cases of research misconduct go undetected, conference told

Richard Smith

¹ London

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Questionable research practices are common and probably do moredamage to science than the "big three" of fabrication, falsification,and plagiarism, said Nick Steneck, consultant to the US Officeof Research Integrity, last week at a conference on the governanceof good research conduct in the United Kingdom.

The priority in the United States had been to eliminate seriousresearch misconduct, said Professor Steneck, but now much moreattention is being paid to preventing "questionable researchpractices," which take many forms, including poor design, incompleteliterature review, failure to report some evidence, unreportedoutcomes, failure to declare conflicts of interest, and redundantpublication.

Later in the conference, Onora O’Neill, president of theBritish Academy, said that she regarded poor research and researchthat wasn’t needed or was poor value for money as beinga matter of research integrity.

Ian Kennedy, chairman of the UK Panel for Research Integrityin Health . . . [Full text of this article]

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