A case study approach to estimating the burden of research misconduct in publicly funded medical research
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2009
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Gammon, E., Linder, S. H., & Slomka, J. (2009). A case study approach to estimating the burden of research misconduct in publicly funded medical research. (Dissertation Abstracts International, 70-3.)
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The economic impact of research misconduct in medical research has been unexplored. While research misconduct in publicly funded medical research has increasingly been the object of discussion, public policy debate, government and institutional action, and scientific research, the costs of research misconduct have been unexamined. The author develops a model to estimate the per case cost of research misconduct, specifically the costs of fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism, in publicly funded medical research. Using the database of Research Misconduct Findings maintained by the Office of Research Integrity, Department of Health and Human Services, the model is used to estimate costs of research misconduct in public funded medical research among faculty during the period 2000-2005.