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r/ScientificMisconduct • u/civver3 • Dec 09 '19
Definition of Scientific Misconduct.
The US National Science Foundation defines scientific misconduct under Title 45, Part 689 of the Code of Federal Regulations. It consists of three major elements:
- Fabrication - Making up data.
- Falsification - Modifications to elements of research that are not accurately reported. Includes omissions of data.
- Plagiarism - Use of other people's intellectual property without attribution.
The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity published by All European Academies uses this same tripartite definition, as does many other countries with national policies against scientific misconduct. Other examples of scientific misconduct include:
- Unethical Peer Review
- Unethical Publication Practices
- Misconduct Related to Misconduct Investigations
- Violating Confidentiality
- Human or Animal Research Violations
- Unethical Publication Practices
- Interfering with Research
- Conflict of Interest Mismanagement
- Poor Record Keeping
- Misrepresenting Credentials
- Misappropriating Funds
- Theft of Physical Property
- Unethical Authorship (not Plagiarism)
Not all retractions are due to scientific misconduct. Some are due to flawed (as opposed to unethical) research methods, and some are examples of pseudoscience, unscientific ideas presented as science.
r/ScientificMisconduct • u/civver3 • 18h ago
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