Table 4

Research ethics and integrity concerns

IssueNo of papers*
Methodology (eg, wrong method; wrong specimen; need more experiments; study design)8
Consent (ie, study participants; data sharing partners)6
Deception (eg, data interpretation)6
Other (eg, sensitive topic; peer review feedback)4
Research Ethics Committee3
Unknown3
Authorship2
Peer review2
Falsification1
Duplicate manuscript submission1
Privacy1
Statistics1
  • *Preprints and published papers; some papers evidenced multiple concerns.