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Volume 328:1648 June 3, 1993 Number 22
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Stealing into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing

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By Marcel C. Lafollette. 293 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1992. $30. ISBN 0-520-07831-4.

Like a priest betraying a confession, a journalist revealing his or her source, or a doctor killing a patient, a scientist who commits fraud violates a central principle of the perpetrator's profession. Despite the intellectual enormity of the crime, there has been a steady trickle of cases over the past decade, yet the academic community has still not completely learned how to cope with the problem or devised meaningful prophylactic reforms.

Stealing into Print offers a clear and smoothly written description of many of these cases, combined with discussions of various institutional aspects, such as the role of journal editors, . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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