Abstract

SAUTHIER, Marta; ALMEIDA FILHO, Antonio José; MATHEUS, Mariana Pereira  and  FONSECA, Patrícia Matheus Lopes da. Fraud and plagiarism in research and in science: reasons and repercussions. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2011, vol.serIII, n.3, pp.47-55. ISSN 0874-0283.

News and reports about fraud and plagiarism in science and by scientific researchers have been published in magazines and newspapers with wide circulation in Brazil and abroad. As active professionals and researchers in academia, we should consider such occurrences, and also discuss and disseminate them. The objects of this study are fraud and plagiarism in research and science. The objectives: to describe fraud and plagiarism in science, in scientific research and in publications, and to analyze the repercussions of those phenomena in terms of the ethics of scientific research and the respective publications. We used an inductive method and a qualitative approach in this descriptive and documentary research. The primary sources were newspapers, magazines and electronic documentation. The motivations for fraud and plagiarism range from competitiveness to globalization as well as electronic documentation and the possibilities of recognition, the point to the need for moral improvement in the social group and the different social classes, economic level and cultural or graduation degree.

Keywords : ethics; nursing; fraud; plagiarism.

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