To protect the integrity of science, we must look beyond falsification, fabrication and plagiarism, to a wider range of questionable research practices, argue Brian C. Martinson, Melissa S. Anderson and Raymond de Vries.
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This research was supported by the Research on Research Integrity Program, an ORI/NIH collaboration, with financial support from the National Institute of Nursing Research and an NIH Mentored Research Scientist Award to R.d.V. We thank the three anonymous reviewers, Nick N. Steneck and M. Sheetz for their insightful input and responses to earlier drafts.
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Martinson, B., Anderson, M. & de Vries, R. Scientists behaving badly. Nature 435, 737–738 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/435737a
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