LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Corruption of scientific integrity

Abstract

Institutions, including universities, are becoming larger, making it challenging for their administrators to support a feeling of sufficient control and oversight. The solution has been more data collection and reports, demanding a shift among academics from doing their job towards proving they are doing it. Despite the massive investment of the university and research resources into this effort, I have not met many administrators who were able to explain how this data accumulation is actively applied to improve the institutional aims or research agenda.

Keywords

• science
• integrity
• fraud
• administration
• publishing
• authorship