Online Ethics Center: Topics Index:

Atmosphere of Lab & Competition Among Students

What about my contribution? Two professors co-author a paper that incorporates something a student had done without any credit to the student.
Credit and Collaboration in a Molecular Biology Lab Ethical problems surface when two people will be sole authors of a research paper that many people contributed to.
When Funding Runs Low In this scenario, one student realizes that another is not being exact and honest in his results. This brings an ethical problem on the actions of the student.
Whose Lab Is It? A graduate student is working on a purification technique, he has a new method that would work, but the professor who is in charge of the lab does not want him to use it.
The Communism of Science A Ph.D. student needs to be published before she can complete the Ph.D. program.
Related Research A post-doctoral student assigns a graduate student to a project without telling the graduate student in charge of that research project.