Table 3. Proportion (with 95% CI) of researchers in ecology and evolution (combined) who reported having doubts about scientific integrity*.
Questionable Research Practices | Scientific Misconduct | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | Once or Twice | Often | Never | Once or Twice | Often | |
Researchers from other institutions | 8.9 | 56.6 | 34.5 | 39.0 | 55.5 | 5.5 |
(6.8–11.6) | (52.3–60.7) | (30.6–38.6) | (34.9–43.4) | (51.0–59.8) | (3.8–7.8) | |
Research at your institution | 27.9 | 52.2 | 20.0 | 69.2 | 29.1 | 1.6 |
(24.2–31.8) | (47.9–56.4) | (16.8–23.6) | (65.0–73.1) | (25.3–33.3) | (0.8–3.1) | |
Graduate student research at your institution | 31.0 | 48.6 | 20.4 | 72.5 | 25.6 | 1.8 |
(27.2–35.1) | (44.3–52.8) | (17.1–24.0) | (68.4–76.3) | (21.9–29.7) | (1.0–3.5) | |
Senior colleagues or collaborators | 31.5 | 50.8 | 17.7 | 73.3 | 24.7 | 2.0 |
(27.6–35.5) | (46.6–55.1) | (14.7–21.2) | (69.2–77.0) | (21.1–28.7) | (1.1–3.7) | |
Your own research | 52.2 | 44.6 | 3.2 | 97.9 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
(48.0–56.4) | (40.5–48.8) | (2.0–5.0) | (96.2–98.8) | (1.1–3.7) | (0.0–0.8) |
*note that not all researchers answered each component of the table above so the total sample size for each of the cells differs slightly, ranging from 488 to 539 samples per cell