{
  "abstract": "In my survey of various types of sleuths I have identified four categories: investigative sleuths, who investigate crimes: diagnostic sleuths, clinicians and pathologists who pursue medical diagnoses; research sleuths, clinicians and epidemiologists who search for the causes of diseases and academics in any discipline who undertake research of any kind; and integrity sleuths, who scrutinize the publications of others, looking for evidence of misconduct. The earliest instances that I have found of the use of the term “sleuth” to describe the last of these categories date from the 1980s, but earlier instances might be found by further sleuthing.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Jeffrey K Aronson"
    }
  ],
  "title": "When I use a word . . . Academic and other sleuths—a taxonomy",
  "uid": "0b4b9618-32df-5463-a697-b3a2d07cd018"
}