I intend in this article to provide a list of webpages, documents, and papers that discuss the scientific misconduct and the academic misconduct in computer science. Scientific misconduct (also called research misconduct) is a violation of research integrity. Academic misconduct is a violation of the integrity of an educational setting. I hope this list constitutes a comprehensive reference to the topic and I’ll try to keep it up-to-date.
Scientific Misconduct References
Scientific Misconduct is a great generic reference.
Self-plagiarism in computer science and Programmers, Professors, and Parasites: Credit and Co-Authorship in Computer Science discuss scientific misconduct in computer science.
Check out Retraction Watch on computer science papers.
The following papers are relevant and interesting:
- Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers.
- Academic careers in Computer Science: continuance and transience of lifetime co-authorships.
- Evolution in the number of authors of computer science publications.
- Authorship: why not just toss a coin?.
- Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit.
Many universities and institutes have scientific integrity and misconduct policies such as:
- ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
- IEEE Code of Ethics.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- University of California, San Diego.
- University of California, Los Angeles (You can also find there a list of policies from various federal agencies in the US).
- Stanford.
Academic Misconduct References
The following papers are relevant and interesting:
- Negotiating the Maze of Academic Integrity in Computing Education.
- Computer Science & Engineering Curricula and Ethical Development.
- Collaboration, Collusion and Plagiarism in Computer Science Coursework.
- Review of source-code plagiarism detection in academia.
Many universities have academic integrity and misconduct policies such as:
More references can be found here.
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