A report from the science journal Nature found that more than 10,000 studies have been withdrawn by scientific publishers in 2023 – twice as many as in 2022
Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino is facing allegations for allegedly falsifying data in several papers. On June 24 – the day after a prominent data blog published its third post in a four-part . The post What Francesca Gino’s Harvard Lawsuit Says About Data Colada’s Fraud Allegations appeared first on Poets&Quants.
Professor Francesca Gino filed the 100-page lawsuit on Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court, claiming Harvard and a trio of data scientist bloggers defamed her with claims of academic fraud.
Researchers have incentive to cut corners, driven by a pervasive “publish or perish” mentality in academia that sees success as a measure of how many papers they get published; that pressure can lead some to overlook their errors or even rationalize wrongdoing, said Michael Kalichman, a University of California, San Diego professor emeritus and founding director of its Research Ethics Program.
Professor Francesca Gino remains on administrative leave from Harvard Business School, where she had been a rising star until the explosive allegations first emerged last month.