What is your opinion if you are offered to buy data on research results that can be used to make scientific papers on your behalf?
It is possible. We often buy, really buy, data on climatic conditions say for last 50 years and use in our publications on flora of a certain region.
Thanks Subir Bandyopadhyay
I thinks your case is clear, and it is legal. What about if a researcher in a university or offers us the date he collects from his institution laboratory? Does it not violate ethics in writing scientific papers?
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I am a little surprised by this question.... In my field if someone offered me data that wasn't mine, I simply would not use it in the first place & I certainly wouldn't buy someone's data for a paper that I was authoring.... Just unethical!
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Yes, it is a real case. Just two weeks ago, someone offered me such a data. But I have not buy it, since I think it was unethical. That's why I opened a discussion to make us sure what should we do.
So, in your field, psychology, it is unethical to buy data to write a paper....
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Dear respected colleagues and scholars. Please participate in the discussion and give your comments.
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