Scientific misconduct: the dark side of science
Scientific misconduct: the dark side of science
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DOI：
10.1007/s12210-015-0415-4
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
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2
通讯作者：
Carafoli, Ernesto
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作者：
Carafoli, Ernesto
科学中的不端行为一直在发生，但近年来急剧增加。造成这一现象的原因有几个：研究人员人数的大量增加并没有伴随着相应的可用资金的增加;在新的地理区域的研究爆炸性发展，而在这些区域，直到几年前研究的数量还很少;掠夺性开放获取期刊的泛滥，这些期刊在作者同意付费的情况下发表文章，而不对文章的价值进行分析经常大量的出版费用;错误地使用结果的统计分析，这主要影响生物医学研究，其中研究变异性是固有的。所有这些原因都有一定的作用，但其中最重要的是现在弥漫在科学界的“发表或毁灭”气氛，在这种气氛中，发表一篇引人注目的论文是决定研究人员是否会有成功的职业生涯或被迫离开科学的因素。许多技术措施现在正越来越多地试图改善这种情况，然而，只有结束不惜一切代价在高知名度期刊上发表文章的不健康竞争，才能完全和决定性地治愈它。
Misconduct in science has always occurred, but has increased dramatically in recent times. A number of reasons have contributed to the phenomenon: the enormous expansion of the population of researchers not accompanied by an equivalent increase of the funds available; the explosive development of research in new geographical areas in which research was quantitatively minor until a few years ago; the proliferation of predatory open access Journals that publish articles without analysis of their merit provided that the Authors agree to the payment of frequently substantial publication fees; the faulty use of statistical analysis of the results, which affects predominantly the biological-medical research in which research variability is intrinsically present. All these reasons have had a role, but the most important among them is the "publish or perish" atmosphere that has now pervaded science, in which publishing a high profile paper is the factor that decides whether a researcher will have a successful career or is forced out of science. A number of technical measures are now increasingly trying to ameliorate the situation, however, only the end of the unhealthy scrambling to publish at all costs, and to do so in the high profile journals that now dominate the world of science will heal it completely and conclusively.