Do's and don'ts for authors
Nov 1, 2003
Scientific misconduct, like many phenomena in physics, occurs on a number of different levels. Examples range from minor "peccadillos", such as sloppy refereeing, to major cases of blatant fraud. The physics community once considered itself free from such misconduct, but that is no longer the case. Last year two physicists in the US paid the ultimate price for scientific misconduct when they were fired from permanent positions at prestigious institutions for fabricating data, while the Indian physics community was rocked by an example of blatant plagiarism.
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