Effect of medical researchers' creative performance on scientific misconduct: a moral psychology perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, some researchers have engaged in scientific misconduct such as fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism to achieve higher research performance. Considering their detrimental effects on individuals' health status (e.g., patients, etc.) and extensive financial costs levied upon healthcare systems, such wrongdoings have even more salience in medical sciences. However, there has been little discussion on the possible influence of medical researchers' existing creative performance on scientific misconduct, and the moral psychological mechanisms underlying those effects are still poorly understood.

Methods

We build a moderated mediation model to test how medical researchers' creative performance affects their scientific misconduct and explore the role

SUBMITTER: Zhang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9759886 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature