An international team has developed five principles that institutions can follow to measure and reward research integrity, aiming to avoid the traditional "publish or perish" system
by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Journal editors highlight their concerns regarding the 2018 "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency
Along with coercive citation, researchers looked at the addition of false investigators to grant proposals as well as honorary authorship and padded citations
As federal and state funding continues to hang in the balance, along with ever-increasing competition for grant dollars, this makes looking for alternative funding sources a priority