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Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators – Nature Index (Dalmeet Singh Chawla | October 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on October 26, 2021
Keywords: Authorship, Institutional responsibilities, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research Misconduct, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On October 19, 2021

A Wordcloud around the concept of deception

Authors who falsely add colleagues to grant applications attract 70% more funding, according to a recent analysis.

The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct, according to Eric Fong, co-author of multiple studies on the practice.

This story and work suggest that the creation of fake co-researchers in grant applications is far more common than you might think and the questionable behaviour is being rewarded with real money.  It is a form of fraud, should be treated as such and classified as a form of research misconduct.  Institutions and funding bodies have a key role to play in stamping out and punishing this form of cheating.

The most recent paper, published in Research Policy in September, found that researchers who listed false investigators on grant applications attracted 70% more funding, on average, over a five-year period.

The findings were based on anonymous responses to a survey of more than 10,000 researchers at 200 leading universities in the United States.

False investigators are those whose names are included on grant applications, but who intend to offer little or no input to the subsequent work if the grant is made. An earlier study based on the same data found that more than one in five survey respondents — 2,217 researchers — admitted to adding false investigators to their grant proposals.

Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators
Authors who falsely add colleagues to grant applications attract 70% more funding, according to a recent analysis.

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