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Scientific Integrity and Misconduct—Yet Again (Editorial: Evan D. Kharasch | September 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on January 13, 2022
Keywords: Journal, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research Misconduct, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On September, 15 2021

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It has been a difficult year for scientific integrity. The problem of scientific misconduct is occupying a disappointingly increasing amount of time in the research world and has reached the lay press. Misconduct requires ever growing vigilance, scrutiny, and at times forensic investigation, on the part of journals, editors, reviewers, readers, misconduct sleuths, and academic institutions.

Misconduct remains relatively rare, but as this short piece discusses its impact has been laid bare and accelerated by the pandemic and is being noticed by the mass media and the general public.  We contend that pre-print servers have not created the problem, it is the cheats and charlatans that have.  Paper mills and journals with little or no editorial standards haven’t helped.  The mess is hurting research and harming the reputation of science.  We need a reset that focuses upon research culture and the resourcing reflective practice not compliance with rules.

Periodically, gross malfeasance is discovered. It has happened again in our specialty. A special committee of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (Kobe, Japan) recently found Dr. Hironobu Ueshima, a Japanese anesthesiologist, guilty of fabricating data and other misconduct in 142 publications (12 original papers, 9 case reports, 1 in related fields, and 120 letters).1,2  To date, only six of these publications have been retracted. If all the 142 articles are ultimately retracted, Ueshima would become the third anesthesiologist with retractions numbering in the triple digits. He and two other anesthesiologists—Joachim Boldt and Yoshitaka Fujii—would sit atop the Retraction Watch leaderboard. Together they would be the three authors with the most retractions in science worldwide.3  This is an ignominious distinction for both these individuals and our specialty. Perioperative medicine has a dominant presence in scientific misconduct.4 

Unfortunately, scientific misconduct is proliferating. Last year, worldwide, more than 2,300 articles were retracted, an increase from just 38 in 2000.5 This may, in part, represent greater scrutiny and reporting, and it is fortuitous that only four in 10,000 articles overall are retracted.6 However the number of problematic if not fraudulent articles is known to be much greater than the number of retractions,5 and retracted articles often continue to be read and cited long after their retraction.7

Kharasch, E.D. (2021); Scientific Integrity and Misconduct—Yet Again. Anesthesiology 135(3) doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000003916
Publisher (Open Access): https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/135/3/377/116295/Scientific-Integrity-and-Misconduct-Yet-Again

Scientific Integrity and Misconduct—Yet Again | Anesthesiology | American Society of Anesthesiologists
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