Estimating the prevalence of researcher misconduct: a study of UK academics within biological sciences

Misconduct in academic research is undoubtedly increasing, but studies estimating the prevalence of such behaviour suffer from biases inherent in researching sensitive topics. We compared the unmatched-count technique (UCT) and the crosswise-model (CM), two methods specifically designed to increase...

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Main Authors: David L. Roberts, Freya A.V. St. John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/562.pdf