Scientific misconduct and bias in cardiovascular imaging research among concerns reported in new survey

Respondents cited points corresponding to financial and profession stress as causes for misconduct, publication bias and undeserved co-author accolades.  

“The fashionable system is sure to advertise false outcomes, fabricated knowledge and partial reporting, due to the financial stress (grant functions, remedy advertising…), the need to publish when it comes to profession and to get additional funding, and in addition the large improve in publication alternatives with the steep improve of open-access (and pay to publish),” one respondent defined. 

Moreover, the authors counsel that residents don’t sometimes obtain coaching on scientific misconduct and/or fraud as a part of their curriculum. 

“On this regard, there might have been respondents that might not be conscious that they’ve carried out something mistaken, which may have led to an underestimation of the quantity of scientific fraud,” the authors steered, including that analysis establishments and universities ought to promote higher consciousness of the issue. 

Regardless of these discrepancies, the authors famous that the general confidence within the integrity of printed work in cardiovascular imaging stays excessive. Respondents rated it 8/10 on common. 

The summary is accessible right here.