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  • Research Misconduct and Medical Journals

  • Howard Bauchner, Robert Steinbrook, Rita F. Redberg
  • Journal:
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / Spring 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 March 2025, pp. 35-40
    Print publication:
    Spring 2025
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  • Journal editors often deal with allegations of research misconduct, defined by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in the United States as fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. It is important that editors have a transparent and consistent process to deal with these allegations quickly and fairly. This process will include the authors and may include research integrity officers at the sponsoring institution as well as funders. Retractions may not be consistent with the ORI definition, for example, specifying inadequate peer-review and unreported conflict of interest, but nevertheless represent scientific misconduct.

  • Medical Journals and Conflicts of Interest

  • Robert Steinbrook, Bernard Lo
  • Journal:
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics / Volume 40 / Issue 3 / Fall 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2021, pp. 488-499
    Print publication:
    Fall 2012

  • Physicians and patients rely on medical journals as trusted sources of medical information. Unfortunately, in multiple instances conflicts of interest have undermined the credibility of the medical literature.

    The primary sources of conflict of interest at medical journals are authors, reviewers, editors (a category that includes editorial staff, editorial boards, and other advisory groups), and journals (a category that includes owners and publishers). Consider these examples.