2017
Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 8-88
A private researcher’s struggles against research fraud.
II. Suggestions for reducing the fraud problem
W. Courtney
Cheshire Innovation Engineering Consultancy, 17 Vale Road, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA15 7TQ, UK
This is the second of two papers relating to research fraud. In the first one, the author described a twelve-year battle to expose research fraud from a novel perspective: that of a self-funded private researcher working with university colleagues. In this paper he makes some draft proposals for combating fraud based on his experiences and observations as an “outsider”. These proposals are intended to be thought-provoking rather than prescriptive.
Keywords: index words and phrases: blockchains, cloud, quality control, research ethics, research fraud, research integrity, women in science