2010/02/01 by Harvey Marcovitch, Virginia Barbour, Carme Borrell +5 · 1 citation
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics · Social Sciences · Decision Sciences · #Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare #Academic integrity and plagiarism #Academic Publishing and Open Access
paper · pdf · doi:10.3325/cmj.2010.51.7
openalex publication_date 2010/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
A systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that around 2% of scientists admit to have falsified research at least once (1). Up to 33% admit other questionable practices such as plagiarism, duplicate publication, undisclosed changes in pre-research protocols or dubious ethical behavior (1). There can be no doubt that discovered cases of research and publication misconduct represent a tip of an iceberg and many cases go unreported (2).