INDICE: Preface xi Acknowledgements and Dedication xiii Chapter 1 Research Ethics: The Best Ethical Practices Produce the Best Science 1 Judge yourself 4Morality vs ethics 4 Inauspicious beginnings 6 How science works 7 Summary 9 Judge yourself redux 9 Chapter 2 How Corrupt is Science? 11 Judge yourself 12 'Scientists behaving badly' 12 Do scientists behave worse with experience? 14 Judge yourself 15 Crime and punishment 15 Judge yourself 17 Judge yourself redux 18 Judge yourself redux 19 Judge yourself redux 19 Summary 20 Chapter 3 Plagiarise and Perish 21 Ideas 23 Sentences 23 Phrases 23 A hoppy example 24 Whatis plagiarism, really? 24 Judge yourself 25 How many consecutive identical and uncited words constitute plagiarism? 25 Self-plagiarism and recycling 26 Judge yourself 27 Judge yourself 31 Tools to discover plagiarism 33 Self-plagiarism and ethics revisited 34 Judge yourself 34 Is plagiarism getting worse? 35 The case of the plagiarising graduate student 35 Judge yourself redux 36 v Judge yourself redux 37 Judge yourself redux 37 Summary 38 Chapter 4 Finding the Perfect Mentor 39 Caveat 40 Choosing a mentor 40 Judge yourself 43 Choosing a graduate project 46 Judge yourself 47 Mentors for assistant professors 47 How to train your mentor 52 Choosing the right research project: the new graduate students dilemma 54 Judge yourself redux 56 Judge yourself redux 56 Summary 56 Chapter 5 Becoming the Perfect Mentor 57 Grants and contracts are a prerequisite to productive science 57 Judge yourself 58 Publications are the fruit of research 59 On a personal level 59 Judge yourself 60 Common and predictable mistakes scientist make at key stages in their training and careers and how being a good mentor can make improvements 60 Questions 70 Judge yourself redux 71 Judge yourself redux 71 Summary 72 Chapter 6 Research Misconduct: Fabricating Data 73 Why cheat? 74 Judge yourself 76 The case of Jan Hendrick Sch¨on, 'Plastic Fantastic' 76 The case of Woo-Suk Hwang: dog cloner, data fabricator 77 Judge yourself 78 Detection of image and data misrepresentation 78 Judge yourself 81 Neither here nor there the curious case of Homme Hellinga 81 Judge yourself83 Lessons learnt 83 Judge yourself redux 84 Judge yourself redux 84 Judge yourself redux 84 Summary 85 Chapter 7 Research Misconduct: Falsification and Whistleblowing 87 A 'can of worms' indeed: the case of Elizabeth 'Betsy' Goodwin89 Judge yourself 91 Judge yourself 92 Judge yourself 94 Judge yourself 98 Deal with ethical quandaries informally if possible 99 Judge yourself 100 Cultivating a culture of openness, integrity, and accountability 100 Judge yourself redux 101 Judge yourself redux 102 Judge yourself redux 102 Judge yourself redux 102 Judge yourself redux 103 Summary 103 Chapter 8 Authorship: Whos an Author on a Scienti
- ISBN: 978-0-470-74564-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2011
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