Fraud, exaggerations, and ghost authorship: questioning the reliability of the scholarly record
Abstract
The credibility of science is regularly undermined by highly prominent cases of fraud, but it also suffers from more discreet examples of bad practices and misconduct, which can be just as harmful. Concerned scientists focus on studying academic production, with projects designed to identify anomalies and errors in the literature, in order to gain insights into the causes and study possible correction mechanisms. The authors of this article are contributors to one such project, called NanoBubbles.
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