Academic Novels on Research Integrity
I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of Academic Novels on Research Integrity, which now covers 35 titles. Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.
Bouter L. Academic novels on research integrity. MetaArXiv (Submitted: January 9, 2025 -Last edited: January 13, 2026). https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/9ntxg
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I don't think this rates inclusion in your list, as the following is just a single paragraph in a four-box series, but I was re-reading a classic science fiction novel recently - Julian May's The Golden Torc (1982) - and found that it mentions research misconduct! The context is when one character is giving their involvement in creating a key piece of technology years ago:
"I designed the original device at Berkeley, you know."
"I thought that Eisenmann -"
"I was a graduate student working under him. A young fool ... My work was promising, he said, but its potential might remain unrealised because I lacked the cachet necessary to attract Polity funding. However, if I worked under him there would be no problem. I was grateful and he was clever and the work was a resounding success. And now the entire Milieu knows Eisenmann the laureate. A few even remember Eusebio Gomez-Nolan, his faithful little assistant."
Though a fictional scenario in a fictional far-future, it's an all-too familiar situation.
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