In this paper, we establish a new global Carleman estimate for the Euler-Bernoulli plate operator acting in a bounded domain of RN with N 2, in which clamped boundary conditions have been imposed. We obtain a weighted estimate with observations in part of the boundary. As an application of the Carleman inequality, we obtain a Lipschitz stability result for the inverse problem of recovering the spatial part of the source term of the system from boundary measurements at any arbitrary positive time. (c) 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.