Samuel V Bruton

Biographic Data

ID4433582
NAMESamuel V Bruton
GIVEN NAMESSamuel V
FAMILY NAMEBruton
SIGNATUREBRUTON S V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern Mississippi
ORCID0000-0002-5455-125X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Ordering matters in shared authorship

    Open AccessSamuel V Bruton, Mohammad HosseiniARTICLEScientometrics2025

  • Behavioral Misconduct as a Basis for Scientific Retractions

    Open AccessAugust Namuth, Samuel V Bruton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2024Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Citation Ethics

    Open AccessSamuel V Bruton, Alicia L Macchione et al.ARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2024Cited by: 2References: 5

  • Principal Investigators’ Priorities and Perceived Barriers and Facilitators When Making Decisions About Conducting Essential Research in the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessAlison L Antes, Tristan McIntosh et al.ARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2023

  • Personal Motivations and Systemic Incentives

    Open AccessSamuel V Bruton, Mary M Medlin et al.ARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2020

  • Skin in the Game

    Open AccessDonald F Sacco, Samuel V Bruton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2020References: 5

    Two preregistered studies explored the likelihood paper reviewers would request clarification from authors regarding potential questionable research practices (QRPs). Study 1 participants were instructed to imagine reviewing a journal manuscript as either a coauthor or peer reviewer and rate the extent to which they would request clarification from the author when encountering potential QRPs. Participants reported greater likelihood of requesting…

  • Ethical Consistency and Experience

    Open AccessSamuel V Bruton, Mitch Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2019Cited by: 2References: 6

    Over the past couple of decades, the apparent widespread occurrence of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) in scientific research has been widely discussed in the research ethics literature as a source of concern. Various ways of reducing their use have been proposed and implemented, ranging from improved training and incentives for adopting best practices to systematic reforms. This article reports on the results of two studies that investiga…

  • In Defense of the Questionable

    Open AccessDonald F Sacco, Samuel V Bruton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2017Cited by: 1References: 4

    National Institutes of Health principal investigators reported their perceptions of the ethical defensibility, prevalence in their field, and their personal willingness to engage in questionable research practices (QRPs). Using ethical defensibility ratings, an exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor solution: behaviors considered unambiguously ethically indefensible and behaviors whose ethical defensibility was more ambiguous. In additi…

  • The ethics and politics of policing plagiarism

    Samuel V Bruton, Samuel Bruton et al.ARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2016

    Recently, the usage of plagiarism detection software such as Turnitin® has increased dramatically among university instructors. At the same time, academic criticism of this software’s employment has also increased. We interviewed 23 faculty members from various departments at a medium-sized, public university in the southeastern US to determine their perspectives on Turnitin® and student plagiarism. We wanted to discern if there are important dis…

  • Financial Conflicts of Interest, Disclosure, and Academic Discipline

    Open AccessSamuel V Bruton, Donald F Sacco et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2016

    Peer assessments of researchers' financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) are crucial to effective FCOI management. We sought to determine how academics perceive FCOI disclosure and whether their perceptions vary depending on discipline and educational backgrounds. Participants (faculty and staff members from a multi-disciplinary academic medical center) responded to a questionnaire involving 10 hypothetical scenarios in which researchers either d…

  • Education Journal Editors’ Perspectives on Self-Plagiarism

    Open AccessSamuel V Bruton, John R RachalARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2015Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Should It Be Considered Plagiarism?” Student Perceptions of Complex Citation Issues

    Open AccessDan Childers, Samuel V BrutonARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2015Cited by: 5References: 6