ArticleIranian journal of public health2017
Research Misconduct: A Report from a Developing Country.
Article in Iranian journal of public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Opinion: Medical education in many low- and middle-income countries needs urgent attention and serious improvement.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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- Knowledge, attitudes and practices about research misconduct among medical residents in southwest China: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Construction and Validation of the Research Misconduct Scale for Social Science University Students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Assessing research misconduct in Iran: a perspective from Iranian medical faculty members.BMC medical ethics · 2021Article
- Self-Reported Academic Misconduct among Medical Students: Perception and Prevalence.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2021Article
- A review of the current concerns about misconduct in medical sciences publications and the consequences.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2020Review
- Psychometric properties of Persian version of the research misconduct questionnaire (PRMQ).Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2020Article
- Practical tips for teaching academic integrity in the digital age.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2019Article
- Evolution of Iran's health research system over the past 50 years: a narrative review.Journal of global health · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundCheating rate is rising and engages newer methods. This study performed to estimate the rate of research misconduct in the thesis of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in 2015.
methodsIn this cross sectional study, all undergraduate and postgraduate medical students graduated during the study period in 2015, from the School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran were asked to fill a small checklist anonymously. It consisted of two demographic questions and two other ones for estimation of research misconduct. All three major types of research misconduct were explained in the checklist. We used the Randomized Response Technique for sensitive question in this survey. We asked the respondent to choose one question randomly and answer to it. The probability of selection of each question was equal.
resultsThere were 149 filled questionnaires out of which 44 (31%) were graduated for General Practitioner, 63 (44%) for Residency, 31(21%) for Master Degree and 6 (4%) for Ph.D. Fifty-two percent (75) were male. More than half of participants were graduated between 2011 and 2012. The majority of participants were native (104, 81%). Undergraduate students had an estimation of 19% research misconduct in performing the thesis while this was 26% of postgraduate students. Males were nearly two times comparing to females in this issue (30% vs. 16%).
conclusionThis high estimation must be considered in future policy making about observing strictly on researches.
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