Notable Cases of Academic and Research Fraud
- Francesca Gino (Harvard University): Her tenure was revoked after an internal investigation concluded she committed research misconduct involving fabricated data in multiple published studies. [1]
- Diederik Stapel (Tilburg University): Known as one of the largest data fraudsters in modern science, he had dozens of papers retracted after admitting he invented data sets entirely for social psychology papers. [1]
- Marc Hauser (Harvard University): A former evolutionary biologist found responsible for scientific misconduct and falsifying data regarding primate cognition studies, leading to federal funding bans and retractions. [1]
- Ranga P. Dias (US), a physicist formerly at the University of Rochester, was in 2024 found by an investigatory committee to have committed research misconduct, including data fabrication and falsification, related to his work on alleged superconducting materials.[274][275] A 2023 report in Science noted that at least 21% of Dias's 2013 doctoral thesis had been plagiarised.[276] As of 2024, Dias has had five of his research papers retracted, and five other papers have received an expression of concern.
- Tao Li, a computer science professor at the University of Florida, was accused of fabricating results and pushing his PhD student Huixiang Chen to keep pursuing a paper with false results at ISCA 2019.[247] Mr. Chen committed suicide, and ACM and IEEE found Prof. Li guilty of pressuring him after a two-year investigation. University of Florida forced Prof. Li to retire from the university after the investigation by IEEE and ACM
- Mart Bax (Netherlands), former professor of political anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, committed multiple acts of scientific misconduct including data fabrication,[292][293][294] with a 2020 article in Ethnologia Europaea characterizing Bax's misconduct as "incredible and appalling."[295] Bax, who as of 2020 has had nine of his research publications retracted,[296] was found in 2013 to have never published 61 of the papers he listed on his CV.
- Diederik Stapel (Netherlands), former professor of social psychology at Tilburg University, fabricated data in dozens of studies on human behaviour,[315] a deception described by The New York Times as "an audacious academic fraud."[316
- C. David Bridges (US), an emeritus researcher at Purdue University and formerly at Baylor College of Medicine, was found by a NIH investigation panel to have stolen ideas from a rival's manuscript that Bridges had been asked to review, and used that information to produce and publish his own research on eye enzymes.[21][22] The investigating panel described Bridges' conduct as "an egregious misconduct of science that undermines the entire concept and practice of scientific experimentation and ethical responsibility.
- Elias Alsabti (Iraq, US), was a medical practitioner who posed as a biomedical researcher. He plagiarized as many as 60 papers in the field of cancer research, many with non-existent co-authors.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_incidents
