Category
page 1Scientific misconduct
conflict of interest
situation occurring when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation
source criticism
process of evaluating an information source
scientific misconduct
violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research
predatory publishing
fraudulent business model for scientific publications
salami tactics
approach to achieving major goals by consistently taking small steps
Elisabeth Bik
scientific integrity expert (born 1966)
retraction
act of withdrawing, refuting, or reversing an academic or scientific paper, or a statement therein, by its authors, their institution, or its publishers
data dredging
use of data mining to uncover patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant
Retraction Watch
organization reporting scientific paper retraction
research paper mill
organisation that produces and sells fraudulent research manuscripts
Dorothy Bishop
British psychologist
Betrayers of the Truth
book by William Broad
P-hacking
redirect Data dredging
Least publishable unit
smallest amount of information that can generate a publication in a peer-reviewed journal
data sharing
practice of making data available to others
Voodoo Science
book by Robert L. Park