Decisions made at the strategic level of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) affect policies,
strategies, and actions that the institutions make as a whole. Decision's structures at HEIs …

Researchers have increasingly warned about “p-hacking” and the improper use of control
variables. This paper considers the risk that a “researcher's degrees of freedom” with respect …

Abstract Objectives Questionable research practices (QRPs) lead to incorrect research
results and contribute to irreproducibility in science. Researchers and institutions have …

This study describes a method for identifying hijacked journal domains based on an analysis
of the archives of clone journals. This method is based on the argument that fraudulent …

Peer review practices differ substantially between journals and disciplines. This study
presents the results of a survey of 322 editors of journals in ecology, economics, medicine …

There is a mounting worry about erroneous and outright fraudulent research that gets
published in the scientific literature. Although peer review's ability to filter out such …

Plagiarism in academia is endangering the veracity of any discipline. Yet, estimating the
actual prevalence of plagiarism is difficult due to the sensitive nature of freely admitting …

Some editors try to artificially inflate their journals' citation count by coercing authors, telling
them to add citations referencing their journal even though the review process did not …

There are many means by which editors can inappropriately manipulate journal impact
factors, but questions remain as to whether these potentially inappropriate behaviors …

Empirical studies have revealed a disturbing prevalence of research misconduct in a wide
variety of disciplines, although not, to date, in the areas of ethics and philosophy. This study …