Humanities

Scientific Misconduct

Intentional falsification of scientific data by presentation of fraudulent or incomplete or uncorroborated findings as scientific fact.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Intentional falsification of scientific data by presentation of fraudulent or incomplete or uncorroborated findings as scientific fact.

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Synonyms

15 entry terms
  • Fraud, Scientific
  • Frauds, Scientific
  • Misconduct, Scientific
  • Scientific Fraud
  • Scientific Frauds
  • Ethics in Publishing
  • Fraudulent Data
  • Research Misconduct
  • Scientific Dishonesty
  • Data, Fraudulent
  • Dishonesties, Scientific
  • Dishonesty, Scientific
  • Misconduct, Research
  • Publishing, Ethics in
  • Scientific Dishonesties

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Aspects Covered

7 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT is also available

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History Note

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Previous Indexing

  • Ethics (1977-1989)
  • Fraud (1974-1989)

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  1. K01w.752w.566w.479w.915.500w
  2. N05.350w.979.500w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Scientific Misconduct. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015871. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015871
  2. Scientific Misconduct. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct
  3. Scientific Misconduct. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428632