Analysis and prevention of scientific misconduct in the application for project of National Natural Science Foundation of China / 中华医学科研管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the reasons for the withdrawal of the National Natural Science Foundation of China projects,adopt preventive measurements,to provide countermeasures for the project application and establish scientific integrity.Methods Search the official website of National Natural Science Foundation of China(http//www.nsfc.gov.cn/),and browse case processing decisions during the last five years,analyze the reasons for the withdrawal of projects and classify the scientific misconducts.Results We got 83 publicly accessible cases which involved 93 persons.There were 52 projects whose fund granting has been annulled,and 50 projects at the stage of application have been revoked due to scientific misconduct.The projects were withdrawn mainly due to the fraud peer review,accounting for 46.2％,the project applications were revoked mainly due to copying applications,accounting for 54.0％.Conclusions The countermeasures to prevent the scientific misconducts in the application process includingincrease scientific research integrity propaganda;improve the construction of laws and regulations;improve the detection rate of scientific misconduct;give full play to the supervisory role of supporting institutions;increase the intensity of punishment;improve the selection and supervision system of experts;establish a credit management system during the whole process.