China cracks down on fraud
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More than 400 authors face punishment for peer-review scam.
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News in the past few years has implicated an alarmingly high proportion of plagiarism, falsification or fabrication in the scientific and clinical literature from China.
“Moreover, news in the past few years has implicated an alarmingly high proportion of plagiarism, falsification or fabrication in the scientific and clinical literature from China [13–15].”
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“Therefore, e-mail fraud is the main method used in this academic scandal (Normile 2017).”
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“In order to respond to these challenges, the government has been reforming the academic evaluation system that placed much emphasis on the number of publications (Qiu, 2010), and has announced strict regulations against academic fraud (Normile, 2017).”
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van Zundert, A. A. J., Grace, S. G., & Wiepking, F. S. S. (2022) · European Journal of Anaesthesiology · doi:10.1097/eja.0000000000001513 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Conclusion: The Dark Side of the Three-Player Game
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Academic Misconduct in China’s Physiology and Medicine Sector: Trends and Challenges
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“In 2017, Tumor Biology , a journal of the International Society of Oncology and BioMarkers, retracted approximately 100 medical articles from Chinese authors, draw - ing the Chinese government’s attention to AM (Normile, 2017 ).”
- Authors
- Normile, D.
- Corresponding author
- Normile, Dennis
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2017-08-04
- Volume
- 357
- Issue
- 6350
- Pages
- 435-435
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2744811023
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- peer review fraud, author misconduct, research integrity, scholarly publishing, China
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