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SUMMARY:Seminar by Dr. Maikel Pellens\, ZEW
DTSTART:20161130T120000
DTEND:20161130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260510T183510Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Maikel Pellens\, ZEW\n"Guilt by Association: How Scientifi
 c Misconduct Harms Prior Collaborators"\n\nAbstract:\nRecent highly public
 ized cases of scientific misconduct have raised concerns about the implica
 tions of scientific misconduct and their scope. Previous and anecdotal evi
 dence suggests that the consequences of scientific misconduct reach far be
 yond the fraudulent scientist and her career\, affecting coauthors and ins
 titutions. Here we show that also ‘prior collaborators’ are harmed in 
 the fallout of a misconduct case: those who collaborated in the past with 
 a scientist found guilty of scientific misconduct\, but who are not involv
 ed in the misconduct case in any way. Compared to a random control group\,
  prior collaborators of 36 scientists who were found guilty of scientific 
 misconduct at the Office of Research Integrity are cited 8 to 9% less afte
 r the misconduct case is revealed. This means that scientific misconduct g
 enerates large indirect costs in the form of mistrust of research findings
 \, which lead to unwarranted discarding of valid research results. The bro
 ad fallout of misconduct implies that potential whistleblowers might be di
 sinclined to make their concerns public.\n 
LOCATION:EPFL\, ODY 4.03\, VIP Room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_
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 &q=ODY_4.03
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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