Publish or perish

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 521; no. 7552; p. 159
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.05.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 706/648/496; editorial; Humanities and Social Sciences; Management; Medical research; multidisciplinary; Periodical publishing; Police; Professional misconduct; Research Personnel - ethics; Research Personnel - statistics & numerical data; Research Support as Topic; Scholarly publishing; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Scientific Misconduct - legislation & jurisprudence; Scientific Misconduct - statistics & numerical data; Services; United Kingdom; Universities - economics; Universities - standards; Universities - statistics & numerical data; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK

Unlike in the United States, where the Office of Research Integrity oversees formal misconduct investigations related to research funded by the US National Institutes of Health, or Ireland, which plans to subject labs to spot-checks from auditors, UK universities have been allowed to police themselv...