Can we trust clinical trials from China?
China has supplanted the U.S. as the largest producer of scientific articles. More and more Chinese clinical trials are being published in Western medical journals, including elite publications like the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and The Lancet.
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Retraction Watch
The Truth about China’s Cash-for-Publication Policy, MIT Technology Review, July 2017
“Why Fake Research Is Rampant in China,” The Economist, February 2024
The End of Publish or Perish? China’s New Policy on Research Evaluation, Max Planck Institute
Five ways China must cultivate research integrity, Nature, November 2019
Analysis of doctoral graduates' attitudes toward academic misconduct and its causes, Wangfang Data, 2008
Nearly half of US Chinese student dismissals due to “academic dishonesty”, The PIE, September 2023
Dana-Farberications at Harvard University, For Better Science, January 2024
Landmark research integrity survey finds questionable practices are surprisingly common, Science (blog), July 2021
How Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent? Reason, July 2021
