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Don't trust scientists!
The plural of anecdote is not data. Yet, anecdotes of scientific misconduct are accumulating. Everyone knows the most high-profile cases like those of Jan Hendrik Schön or Hwang Woo-Suk. In a recent survey, over 70% of s...[more]
tenure   credibility   politics   fraud   misconduct   labor   working hours   
Posted on Tuesday 02 March 2010 - 11:21:05

Science, red in tooth and claw
I've been contemplating the current competitive state of science here before. The gist of it was that science may be suffering from too much competition, leading to an increasing incidence of misconduct, such as falsifyi...[more]
open access   sabotage   tenure   credibility   politics   fraud   misconduct   stress   
Posted on Thursday 30 September 2010 - 17:10:18

Increased publication pressure leading to increasing retractions?

I've already mentioned the correlation between the declining number of tenured positions in science and the increasing rate of retractions:

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Clearly, correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, but the conclusion is t...[more]
retractions   incentives   pressure   impact factor   misconduct   fraud   
Posted on Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 16:51:03

Retractions correlate better with 'Impact Factor' than citations

ResearchBlogging.org
Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor (IF) is supposed to provide a measure for how often the average publication in a scientific journal is cited and thus a quantitative basis for ranking journals. However, there are (at least...[more]
citations   impact factor   retractions   bibliometrics   misconduct   fraud   
Posted on Thursday 18 August 2011 - 09:59:22

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