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| Another disorder which will spread through the science community |
| Ok, this story in TheScientist is just a collection of he-said/she-said accounts. But it reminded me of yet another negative consequence of the current developments in the science community, besides scientific misconduct...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 20 July 2007 - 13:11:47 |
| Polishing scientific results |
| In a follow-up to the last post on scientific misconduct, I think it is already becoming apparent that the incidence of "polishing" scientific data is on the rise. With "polishing" I refer to omission of experiments that...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 29 January 2007 - 14:55:11 |
| Scientific misconduct |
| Both The Scientist and Nature feature scientific misconduct prominently in their current issues: A Fluctuating Reality (The Scientist) Breeding Cheats (Nature - see also related articles) An earlier Wired article also cover...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 18 January 2007 - 17:20:07 |
| The decline of tenure and the rise of retractions: causation or correlation? |
| Amidst the recent flurry of discussions about research assessment strategies came Neil Saunders and posted his analysis of the number of retractions indexed in PubMed. At the same time, Giorgio Gilestro weighed in with h...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 02 December 2010 - 19:31:15 |
| Applying game theory to science politics |
| Game theory has been an important scientific tool to study the dynamics of social interactions n a community. Actually, my first publication is about the evolution of cooperation and how certain aspects of it can be mode...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 May 2007 - 10:02:38 |
| 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] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 02 March 2010 - 11:21:05 |
| Increased publication pressure leading to increasing retractions? |
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| Posted on Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 16:51:03 |
| Retractions correlate better with 'Impact Factor' than citations |
 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] |
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| Posted on Thursday 18 August 2011 - 09:59:22 |
| 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] |
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| Posted on Thursday 30 September 2010 - 17:10:18 |