The Costs and Underappreciated Consequences of Research Misconduct: A Case Study

Arthur Michalek and colleagues explore the consequences of scientific misconduct and, using a single case as an illustration, estimate that direct costs can approach US$525,000, although total costs are likely to be higher.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000318PMID 20808955PMCID 2923086
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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