Review the types of scientific misconduct in nursing research and strategies to deal with it

Misconduct includes all serious deviations of ethic actions in research proposals and conducting and reporting research results. Scientific misconduct impairs the reputation of the author and ensuring the accuracy of his work. The purpose of this study was to review the types and causes of misconduct when conducting nursing research and how to deal with it. This study was conducted in 2013 with reviewing available literature and articles related to scientific misconduct in nursing research and searching in databases such as Pubmed, Scopus, Proquest, Elsevier, Google Scholar, Iranmedex and SID. English and Persian articles that published in 2000 to 2012 were selected. Various forms of misconduct are including nonconformity the principle of human samples protection, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Factors such as pressure on individual for academic promotion, competition between researchers and personal and professional interests can encourage nurses for misconduct. Some methods such as assessing researchers explain about the process of complete consent form, using anti plagiarism software, assessing standard deviation of data and correlation coefficient between variables use for misconduct identity. There are many types of scientific misconduct in nursing research that affects researcher, results and related organization. So it is needed to prevent it with existed methods and develop the same instructions to support and encourage researchers with appropriate performance.