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Not the First Digit! Using Benford's Law to Detect Fraudulent Scientif ic Data

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  1. Bauer Johannes & Groß Jochen, 2011. "Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford’s Law on Regression Tables," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 231(5-6), pages 733-748, October.
  2. Bernhard Rauch & Max Göttsche & Gernot Brähler & Stefan Engel, 2011. "Fact and Fiction in EU‐Governmental Economic Data," German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 12(3), pages 243-255, August.
  3. Rabeea SADAF, 2016. "Benford’S Law In The Case Of Hungarian Whole-Sale Trade Sector," SEA - Practical Application of Science, Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence, Editorial Department, issue 12, pages 561-566, December.
  4. Andreas Quatember, 2019. "A discussion of the two different aspects of privacy protection in indirect questioning designs," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 53(1), pages 269-282, January.
  5. Bruno S. Frey, 2010. "Withering Academia?," CESifo Working Paper Series 3209, CESifo.
  6. Shikano Susumu & Mack Verena, 2011. "When Does the Second-Digit Benford’s Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud?: Facts or Misleading Test Results," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 231(5-6), pages 719-732, October.
  7. Schräpler Jörg-Peter, 2011. "Benford’s Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 231(5-6), pages 685-718, October.
  8. Mr. Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia & Mr. Gonzalo C Pastor Campos, 2009. "Benford’s Law and Macroeconomic Data Quality," IMF Working Papers 2009/010, International Monetary Fund.
  9. Diekmann Andreas & Jann Ben, 2010. "Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection: Facts and Legends," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 11(3), pages 397-401, August.
  10. Chase Thiel & Zhanna Bagdasarov & Lauren Harkrider & James Johnson & Michael Mumford, 2012. "Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 107(1), pages 49-64, April.
  11. Holz, Carsten A., 2014. "The quality of China's GDP statistics," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 309-338.
  12. Jalan, Akanksha & Matkovskyy, Roman & Yarovaya, Larisa, 2021. "“Shiny” crypto assets: A systemic look at gold-backed cryptocurrencies during the COVID-19 pandemic," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  13. Dlugosz, Stephan & Müller-Funk, Ulrich, 2012. "Ziffernanalyse zur Betrugserkennung in Finanzverwaltungen: Prüfung von Kassenbelegen," Arbeitsberichte des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik 133, University of Münster, Department of Information Systems.
  14. Walter R. Schumm & Duane W. Crawford & Lorenza Lockett & Asma bin Ateeq & Abdullah AlRashed, 2023. "Can Retracted Social Science Articles Be Distinguished from Non-Retracted Articles by Some of the Same Authors, Using Benford’s Law or Other Statistical Methods?," Publications, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-13, March.
  15. Andreas Diekmann, 2012. "Making Use of “Benford’s Law†for the Randomized Response Technique," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 41(2), pages 325-334, May.
  16. Teddy Lazebnik & Dan Gorlitsky, 2023. "Can We Mathematically Spot the Possible Manipulation of Results in Research Manuscripts Using Benford’s Law?," Data, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-11, October.
  17. Rachel Peletz & Emily Kumpel & Mateyo Bonham & Zarah Rahman & Ranjiv Khush, 2016. "To What Extent is Drinking Water Tested in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Comparative Analysis of Regulated Water Quality Monitoring," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-14, March.
  18. Mudit Kapoor & Anup Malani & Shamika Ravi & Arnav Agrawal, 2020. "Authoritarian Governments Appear to Manipulate COVID Data," Papers 2007.09566, arXiv.org.
  19. Aineas Kostas Mallios, 2023. "Manipulation in reported dividends: Empirical evidence from US banks," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 43(1), pages 441-461.
  20. Theoharry Grammatikos & Nikolaos I. Papanikolaou, 2021. "Applying Benford’s Law to Detect Accounting Data Manipulation in the Banking Industry," Journal of Financial Services Research, Springer;Western Finance Association, vol. 59(1), pages 115-142, April.
  21. Kundt, Thorben, 2014. "Applying “Benford’s law” to the Crosswise Model: Findings from an online survey on tax evasion," Working Paper 148/2014, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.
  22. Bernhard Rauch & Max G�ttsche & Stephan Langenegger, 2014. "Detecting Problems in Military Expenditure Data Using Digital Analysis," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(2), pages 97-111, April.
  23. Montag, Josef, 2017. "Identifying odometer fraud in used car market data," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 10-23.
  24. Karl‐Heinz Tödter, 2009. "Benford's Law as an Indicator of Fraud in Economics," German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 10(3), pages 339-351, August.
  25. Lee, Kang-Bok & Han, Sumin & Jeong, Yeasung, 2020. "COVID-19, flattening the curve, and Benford’s law," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 559(C).
  26. Eutsler, Jared & Kathleen Harris, M. & Tyler Williams, L. & Cornejo, Omar E., 2023. "Accounting for partisanship and politicization: Employing Benford's Law to examine misreporting of COVID-19 infection cases and deaths in the United States," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
  27. Vadim S. Balashov & Yuxing Yan & Xiaodi Zhu, 2020. "Who Manipulates Data During Pandemics? Evidence from Newcomb-Benford Law," Papers 2007.14841, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2021.
  28. Willis A. Jones, 2020. "A Benford Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Finance Data," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 21(3), pages 234-255, April.
  29. Călin Vâlsan & Andreea-Ionela Puiu & Elena Druică, 2024. "From Whence Commeth Data Misreporting? A Survey of Benford’s Law and Digit Analysis in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-20, August.
  30. Debreceny, Roger S. & Gray, Glen L., 2010. "Data mining journal entries for fraud detection: An exploratory study," International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Elsevier, vol. 11(3), pages 157-181.
  31. Adriano Silva & Sergio Floquet & Ricardo Lima, 2023. "Newcomb–Benford’s Law in Neuromuscular Transmission: Validation in Hyperkalemic Conditions," Stats, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-19, October.
  32. Koch, Christoffer & Okamura, Ken, 2020. "Benford’s Law and COVID-19 reporting," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
  33. Parnes, Dror, 2022. "Banks' off-balance sheet manipulations," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 314-331.
  34. repec:bla:germec:v:11:y:2010:i::p:397-401 is not listed on IDEAS
  35. de Araújo Silva, Archibald & Aparecida Gouvêa, Maria, 2023. "Study on the effect of sample size on type I error, in the first, second and first-two digits excessmad tests," International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Elsevier, vol. 48(C).
  36. Lin, Fengyi & Wu, Sheng-Fu, 2014. "Comparison of cosmetic earnings management for the developed markets and emerging markets: Some empirical evidence from the United States and Taiwan," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 466-473.
  37. Horton, Joanne & Krishna Kumar, Dhanya & Wood, Anthony, 2020. "Detecting academic fraud using Benford law: The case of Professor James Hunton," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(8).
  38. Montag, Josef, 2015. "Identifying Odometer Fraud: Evidence from the Used Car Market in the Czech Republic," MPRA Paper 65182, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  39. Ioana Sorina Deleanu, 2017. "Do Countries Consistently Engage in Misinforming the International Community about Their Efforts to Combat Money Laundering? Evidence Using Benford’s Law," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(1), pages 1-19, January.
  40. Venuka Aggarwal & Khushdeep Dharni, 2020. "Deshelling the Shell Companies Using Benford’s Law: An Emerging Market Study," Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, , vol. 45(3), pages 160-169, September.
  41. Brähler, Gernot & Bensmann, Markus & Emke, Anna-Lena, 2010. "Der Einsatz mathematisch-statistischer Methoden in der digitalen Betriebsprüfung," Ilmenauer Schriften zur Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, volume 4, number 42010.
  42. Sitsofe Tsagbey & Miguel de Carvalho & Garritt L. Page, 2017. "All Data are Wrong, but Some are Useful? Advocating the Need for Data Auditing," The American Statistician, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 71(3), pages 231-235, July.
  43. Ramesh Chandra Das & Chandra Sekhar Mishra & Prabina Rajib, 2017. "Detection of Anomalies in Accounting Data Using Benford¡¯s Law: Evidence from India," Journal of Social Science Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 4(1), pages 123-139, January.
  44. da Silva, A.J. & Floquet, S. & Santos, D.O.C. & Lima, R.F., 2020. "On the validation of the Newcomb−Benford Law and the Weibull distribution in neuromuscular transmission," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 553(C).
  45. repec:bla:germec:v:10:y:2009:i::p:339-351 is not listed on IDEAS
  46. José A. Álvarez-Jareño & Elena Badal-Valero & José Manuel Pavía, 2017. "Using machine learning for financial fraud detection in the accounts of companies investigated for money laundering," Working Papers 2017/07, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
  47. Philip E Hulme & Danish A Ahmed & Phillip J Haubrock & Brooks A Kaiser & Melina Kourantidou & Boris Leroy & Shana M Mcdermott, 2024. "Widespread imprecision in estimates of the economic costs of invasive alien species worldwide," Post-Print hal-04633043, HAL.
  48. Stéphane Blondeau Da Silva, 2022. "An Alternative to the Oversimplifying Benford’s Law in Experimental Fields," Sankhya B: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Springer;Indian Statistical Institute, vol. 84(2), pages 778-808, November.
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