Disclosing the Misconduct in Chiang and Yang's 'A Bibliometric Study of Financial Risk Literature : A Historic Approach'

This paper straightforwardly discloses how an article written by Taiwanese scholars and published in Applied Economics is ridden with suspicious omissions. This misconduct leads to misinformation being printed in prominent journals as well as mistakenly listing eight medical doctors and three psychologists among the 16 productive “financial risk” scholars. Hence, we demonstrate that a lack of academic integrity indicates a disregard for the pursuit truth, which in turns will result in the circulation of erroneous knowledge