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High price to pay for misconduct investigations

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A single investigation into research malpractice cost US$525,000.

Investigations into research misconduct cost US institutions more than US$110 million per year, estimates a study published this week. But experts contacted by Nature question whether calculating the cost of investigation is the right way to measure the impact of research misconduct.

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  1. Michalek, A. M., Hutson, A. D., Wicher, C. P. & Trump, D. L. PLoS Med. 7, e1000318 (2010).

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Reich, E. High price to pay for misconduct investigations. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.414

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