Summa cum fraude – Scientific Misconduct and the Attempt of a Counterattack

“总结暨欺诈--科学不端行为及其反击企图”项目的目的是为科学自律提供一种积极的工具，以便与日益扩大的科学不端现象作斗争。基本上，该项目需要对科学期刊(这里是：物理、化学和材料科学)上的出版物进行有针对性的搜索，以便发现有捏造或虚假数据的研究。在向有关期刊的编辑报告这些案件后，整个调查过程都被记录在案。因此，该项目的主要目的是消除这类与良好科学实践标准严重冲突的出版物，以避免伪科学对当前知识的贡献。在这些调查的基础上，与几家出版商和图书馆的代表以及监察员讨论了处理科学不端行为的新的、特别是统一和标准化的概念(例如，在总结讲习班上)。对科学不端行为的基本机制的了解和对典型系统学(即期刊主题、开放获取期刊、出版商、影响因素、不端行为的类型、重复的不端行为、作者的陈述、期刊调查的持续时间、编辑的最终决定)的分析可能为预防科学不端行为或减少其现有程度提供可能的解决方案。

The project "Summa cum fraude – Scientific Misconduct and the Attempt of a Counterattack" is intended to provide an active tool for self-regulation in science in order to engage the strongly expanding phenomenon of scientific misconduct. Basically, the project entails a targeted search of publications in scientific journals (here: physics, chemistry and material science) in order to find studies with fabricated or false data. After reporting these cases to the editors of the concerned journals the whole process of investigation is documented. Primarily, the project therefore aims to eliminate such publications that are in strong conflict with the standards of good scientific practice in order to avoid that fake science contributes to the current knowledge. Based on these investigations, new and especially uniform and standardized concepts to cope with scientific misconduct are discussed with representatives from several publishers and libraries, and ombudspeople (e.g. at a concluding workshop). The knowledge of the fundamental mechanisms of scientific misconduct and the analysis of typical systematics (i.e. topic of the journal, open access journal, publisher, impact factor, type of misconduct, repeated misconduct, statement by the authors, duration of the investigation by the journal, final decision by the editor) may provide possible solutions to prevent scientific misconduct or to reduce its current extent.