Title |
Responsibility for scientific misconduct in collaborative papers
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Published in |
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, December 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/s11019-017-9817-7 |
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Authors |
Gert Helgesson, Stefan Eriksson |
Abstract |
This paper concerns the responsibility of co-authors in cases of scientific misconduct. Arguments in research integrity guidelines and in the bioethics literature concerning authorship responsibilities are discussed. It is argued that it is unreasonable to claim that for every case where a research paper is found to be fraudulent, each author is morally responsible for all aspects of that paper, or that one particular author has such a responsibility. It is further argued that it is more constructive to specify what task responsibilities come with different roles in a project and describe what kinds of situations or events call for some kind of action, and what the appropriate actions might be. |
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