Scientific advancement is built on the premise of rigorously performed experimentations and observations followed by the objective and complete sharing of reliable and credible results. A key aspect of this is that findings should be reproducible and able to be independently verified, however unfortunately this is not always the case in life and health sciences.
Research integrity is largely promoted in the scientific community. It remains however, a hot topic and many editors are afraid of accepting and publishing fraudulent papers. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine wants to ensure we are publishing high quality, reproducible science which can then benefit and elevate everyone. Like others, however, we are exposed to such malpractices.
The objective of this Research Topic is to depict the situation of scientific integrity, including fraud in the medical field, and in particular in cardiovascular medicine.
We aim to:
1) Better understand the mechanisms and reasons for misconducts whether clearly intentional (fraud) or less clearly intentional (lack of scientific rigor).
2) Describe the direct and indirect but also short and long-term consequences of doubtful attitudes.
3) Identify and discuss possible approaches to discourage, avoid or even sanction fraudulent research, and respectively.
4) Identify and discuss possible approaches to further promote scientific rigor.
Opinion, original studies, reports and other contributions are welcome and will be considered, whether they directly relate to cardiovascular medicine or medicine in general or whether they initially relate to another domain but could be beneficial for our purpose of improving quality in medical science.
Scientific advancement is built on the premise of rigorously performed experimentations and observations followed by the objective and complete sharing of reliable and credible results. A key aspect of this is that findings should be reproducible and able to be independently verified, however unfortunately this is not always the case in life and health sciences.
Research integrity is largely promoted in the scientific community. It remains however, a hot topic and many editors are afraid of accepting and publishing fraudulent papers. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine wants to ensure we are publishing high quality, reproducible science which can then benefit and elevate everyone. Like others, however, we are exposed to such malpractices.
The objective of this Research Topic is to depict the situation of scientific integrity, including fraud in the medical field, and in particular in cardiovascular medicine.
We aim to:
1) Better understand the mechanisms and reasons for misconducts whether clearly intentional (fraud) or less clearly intentional (lack of scientific rigor).
2) Describe the direct and indirect but also short and long-term consequences of doubtful attitudes.
3) Identify and discuss possible approaches to discourage, avoid or even sanction fraudulent research, and respectively.
4) Identify and discuss possible approaches to further promote scientific rigor.
Opinion, original studies, reports and other contributions are welcome and will be considered, whether they directly relate to cardiovascular medicine or medicine in general or whether they initially relate to another domain but could be beneficial for our purpose of improving quality in medical science.