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¹Department of Internal Medicine, CHIREC Hospitals and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.

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Scientific fraud is a growing problem in medical literature, with predatory journals and preprints increasing its accessibility. Combating misconduct requires clear definitions, researcher training, and tools to identify unreliable sources.

Keywords:

biomedical research fraud plagiarism predatory journals scientific misconduct

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Area of Science:

Medical Literature Integrity
Biomedical Research Ethics
Scientific Publishing

Background:

Scientific fraud is a significant and increasing issue within the medical literature, potentially comprising up to 20% of published articles.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the dissemination of fraudulent research through preprints, bypassing peer review.
The proliferation of predatory journals further contaminates scientific literature with unverifiable content.

Purpose of the Study:

To highlight the escalating problem of scientific fraud in biomedical literature.
To emphasize the urgent need for a clear, international definition of scientific fraud.
To propose strategies for combating scientific misconduct and predatory publishing.

Main Methods:

Literature review and analysis of trends in scientific publishing.
Assessment of the impact of preprints and predatory journals on research integrity.
Synthesis of current challenges in defining and combating scientific fraud.

Main Results:

Scientific fraud is pervasive and exacerbated by new publishing models.
Lack of a universal definition hinders effective countermeasures.
Existing procedures for monitoring research and identifying predatory journals are insufficient.

Conclusions:

A unified international definition of scientific fraud is crucial.
Implementing early researcher training on ethics and misconduct is essential.
Developing and disseminating tools to identify predatory journals is necessary to protect scientific literature.