Search Results

Suppose I have devised a way to cheat at cards, exams or any other situation in which secret communication with other people or machines provides unfair advantage. The method is novel and uses origina …

I value the reputation of the journals to which I submit articles. Mostly, I wish to confront my work with the most competent researchers in my field through peer review, in order to have an expert op …

For the case of the "forgotten" reference to previous similar work, I'd say you should assume good faith: maybe they just missed it. If it's not plagiarized then it's not really fraudulent. Re-discove …

I think generally cheating, while certainly despicable, is a sufficiently marginal activity that it's difficult to argue for investing much money and efforts to fight it. Much of it can be detected or …

The answer is no. Being in competition with you for acceptance is not a valid reason to exclude reviewers. That competition is implicit and you'd be excluding everyone then. Peer review assumes good …

By submitting your work to highly ranked, prestigious journals, you are typically confronting it with the strictest scrutiny and highest standards in the profession. You also accept that the novelty o …

Citations have only one practical purpose: indicating to your readers where they can find the published material on which you built the work that's described in your paper (methods you used, hypothese …

Fake science is hurting academia and society at large in many ways. Legitimate scientific literature is being drowned in an ocean of junk journals and articles. Almost everywhere in the world, there s …

The professor is free to decide to reuse questions from previous exams. It's a bit sloppy, but it's her business. She can't forbid students from learning the answers by heart, she would have no ways o …

It's completely inappropriate. If a postdoc is an employee, there most certainly is a contract with a job description that, for sure, does not include babysitting. If a postdoc is funded with a per …

In this several times up-voted answer, it is suggested, among other things, that 'if someone using an image [...] that they do not own (it) is inappropriate and should be first reported to the PI of t …

Your backing off reaction is the appropriate one: cease any form of association with him right away. The description of your first-hand witnessing of him fabricating data is more than enough to ascer …

I can think of multiple sane reasons not to publicly state romantic or marital involvement with a fellow researcher. There surely is no obligation to do otherwise. Now, in the situation you described …

There is a situation in which the exact situation described in the title regularly happened and (most likely) still happens: military research. There are multiple example of knowledge acquired by the …

Yes, it's appropriate. As far as I know, it's also rare. Editors usually rely on the reviewer's evaluations but nothing prevents them from giving their own review.