Scientific misconduct

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Scientific misconduct

Quality:

Scientific misconduct - violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. Article “Scientific misconduct” in English Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 73 references and 22 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Scientific misconduct” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Scientific misconduct”, its content was written by 391 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1096 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 481 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1677 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #558 in January 2002
  • Global: #641 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #110478 in September 2008
  • Global: #49744 in March 2014

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
83.3333
2Japanese (ja)
科学における不正行為
74.7123
3Hebrew (he)
הונאה במחקר
74.4445
4English (en)
Scientific misconduct
66.3636
5French (fr)
Fraude scientifique
50.249
6Arabic (ar)
سوء استخدام العلم
35.3564
7Swedish (sv)
Forskningsfusk
32.1123
8Ukrainian (uk)
Наукова містифікація
30.481
9Korean (ko)
연구부정행위
29.4893
10Czech (cs)
Vědecký podvod
25.0643
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Scientific misconduct" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scientific misconduct
1 152 104
2Japanese (ja)
科学における不正行為
739 414
3German (de)
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
504 941
4Korean (ko)
연구부정행위
73 253
5French (fr)
Fraude scientifique
68 686
6Spanish (es)
Fraude científico
59 690
7Russian (ru)
Мошенничество в науке
41 991
8Portuguese (pt)
Fraude científica
20 789
9Danish (da)
Videnskabelig uredelighed
20 048
10Arabic (ar)
سوء استخدام العلم
16 784
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Scientific misconduct" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scientific misconduct
8 608
2Japanese (ja)
科学における不正行為
1 463
3German (de)
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
907
4Russian (ru)
Мошенничество в науке
280
5French (fr)
Fraude scientifique
206
6Korean (ko)
연구부정행위
107
7Chinese (zh)
科學不端行為
82
8Portuguese (pt)
Fraude científica
75
9Arabic (ar)
سوء استخدام العلم
58
10Slovak (sk)
Vedecký podvod
56
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Scientific misconduct" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Scientific misconduct
391
2German (de)
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
302
3Japanese (ja)
科学における不正行為
180
4French (fr)
Fraude scientifique
71
5Korean (ko)
연구부정행위
24
6Russian (ru)
Мошенничество в науке
21
7Portuguese (pt)
Fraude científica
14
8Czech (cs)
Vědecký podvod
13
9Danish (da)
Videnskabelig uredelighed
11
10Spanish (es)
Fraude científico
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Scientific misconduct" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Scientific misconduct
9
2Japanese (ja)
科学における不正行為
3
3German (de)
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
1
4Arabic (ar)
سوء استخدام العلم
0
5Czech (cs)
Vědecký podvod
0
6Danish (da)
Videnskabelig uredelighed
0
7Spanish (es)
Fraude científico
0
8Persian (fa)
بدرفتاری علمی
0
9French (fr)
Fraude scientifique
0
10Hebrew (he)
הונאה במחקר
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Scientific misconduct" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Scientific misconduct
481
2Japanese (ja)
科学における不正行為
306
3Arabic (ar)
سوء استخدام العلم
225
4French (fr)
Fraude scientifique
130
5German (de)
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
128
6Korean (ko)
연구부정행위
98
7Persian (fa)
بدرفتاری علمی
72
8Chinese (zh)
科學不端行為
56
9Spanish (es)
Fraude científico
27
10Russian (ru)
Мошенничество в науке
25
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
سوء استخدام العلم
csCzech
Vědecký podvod
daDanish
Videnskabelig uredelighed
deGerman
Täuschung und Fälschung in der Wissenschaft
enEnglish
Scientific misconduct
esSpanish
Fraude científico
faPersian
بدرفتاری علمی
frFrench
Fraude scientifique
heHebrew
הונאה במחקר
jaJapanese
科学における不正行為
koKorean
연구부정행위
noNorwegian
Forskningsjuks
ptPortuguese
Fraude científica
ruRussian
Мошенничество в науке
skSlovak
Vedecký podvod
srSerbian
Naučne prevare
svSwedish
Forskningsfusk
trTurkish
Bilimsel suistimal
ukUkrainian
Наукова містифікація
uzUzbek
Fandagi firibgarlik
viVietnamese
Hành vi xấu trong khoa học
zhChinese
科學不端行為

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#110478
09.2008
Global:
#49744
03.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#558
01.2002
Global:
#641
01.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Scientific misconduct from Wikipedia articles about Paolo Macchiarini, Francesca Gino, Haruko Obokata, Jan Hendrik Schön and Hoax. Whereas reading the article about Scientific misconduct people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Piltdown Man, List of scientific misconduct incidents, Japanese scientific misconduct allegations, Diederik A. Stapel and Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cell.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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