Summa cum fraude: how to prevent scientific misconduct

[摘要] Scientific integrity has always been a critical issue in performing research. Recently, alarming signals from China have reached the academic community in the USA and Europe about scientific misconduct. One of the most respected newspapers in our country (NRC Handelsblad, 11 December 2010) reported that at least one third of leading scientists (2000 out of 6000) allied to one of the six major Chinese Universities has been involved in scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, data fabrication and data manipulation. Not only in China, but in almost every country, there are clear examples of scientific fraud in the university setting [1].

[学科分类] 心脏病和心血管学