Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Wetenschappelijke schandpaal

Studenten van de Ecole Normale Supérieure in Parijs stellen in het kader van het zgn Scientific Red Cards project, gesponsord door de European Science Foundation (ESF), een online register samen van wetenschappelijke artikelen aan welke de smet van fraude kleeft, aldus Science Daily.

"The database will contain the bibliographic reference of the paper, the type of misconduct, and a link to a published account of the misconduct. Papers affected by falsification, fabrication and plagiarism will be included as well as cases where editorial policies and standards have not been respected or research subjects have been treated unethically".

"Making scientific misconduct known to the scientific community could act as a deterrent to other misbehaviour", aldus een van de samenstellers.

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