What is Research Misconduct?

Research misconduct is falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, or other serious deviation from commonly accepted practices in the relevant scientific community for proposing, performing or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.

Examples

  • Making up data
  • Altering data
  • Omitting or selectively reporting data
  • Plagiarism
  • Instructing to falsify or fabricate

How to Report

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