Methods to assess research misconduct in health-related research: A scoping review
Autor: | Rik van Eekelen, Madelon van Wely, Rui Wang, Wentao Li, Esmée M Bordewijk, Marian Showell, Ben W.J. Mol |
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Přispěvatelé: | Epidemiology and Data Science |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Scoping review
Medical education Open science Biomedical Research Image manipulation Epidemiology Publications Formal validation MEDLINE Health related Randomization Plagiarism Scientific misconduct 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Data integrity Methods Research misconduct 030212 general & internal medicine Trial registration Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 136, 189-202. Elsevier USA |
ISSN: | 0895-4356 |
Popis: | Objective To give an overview of the available methods to investigate research misconduct in health-related research. Study Design and Setting In this scoping review, we conducted a literature search in MEDLINE, Embase, The Cochrane CENTRAL Register of Studies Online (CRSO), and The Virtual Health Library portal up to July 2020. We included papers that mentioned and/or described methods for screening or assessing research misconduct in health-related research. We categorized identified methods into the following four groups according to their scopes: overall concern, textual concern, image concern, and data concern. Results We included 57 papers reporting on 27 methods: two on overall concern, four on textual concern, three on image concern, and 18 on data concern. Apart from the methods to locate textual plagiarism and image manipulation, all other methods, be it theoretical or empirical, are based on examples, are not standardized, and lack formal validation. Conclusion Existing methods cover a wide range of issues regarding research misconduct. Although measures to counteract textual plagiarism are well implemented, tools to investigate other forms of research misconduct are rudimentary and labour-intensive. To cope with the rising challenge of research misconduct, further development of automatic tools and routine validation of these methods is needed. Trial registration number Center for Open Science (OSF) ( https://osf.io/mq89w ). |
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