Phys.org  April 13, 2023 Procedures for monitoring the trustworthiness of research, and for investigating cases where concern about possible data fraud have been raised are not well established. Based on the well-established practices of financial auditing, researchers in the UK have suggested a practical approach for the investigation of work suspected of fraudulent data manipulation using Benford’s Law. They provided synthesis of the literature on tests of adherence to Benford’s Law, culminating in advice of a single initial test for digits in each position of numerical strings within a dataset. They recommend further tests which may prove useful if specific […]