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Herbert N. Nigg, PhD; Gabriela Radulescu

JAMA. 1994;272(2):168-170.

Abstract
Scientific misconduct easily occurs in environmental science and toxicology; we encountered four such cases. Only one case was discovered by editors; three were reported by other authors. All guilty authors were eventually banned from future publication in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Cases in the Bulletin indicate that scientific misconduct may occur undetected across phyla, genera, and species; that distance from the publishing source makes detection more difficult; that editors and reviewers are not organized to take action against scientific misconduct; that plagiarized authors are likely to report plagiarism; and that there is only a small risk of censure from any source for authors engaging in scientific misconduct.

(JAMA. 1994;272:168-170)

Author Affiliations
From the Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred (Dr Nigg), and Journals Division, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (Ms Radulescu).

Footnotes
Presented at the Second International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, Chicago, Ill, September 11, 1993.

Reprint requests to Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Rd, Lake Alfred, FL 33850 (Dr Nigg).

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