It’s the type of scenario that can sully an institution’s reputation in an instant: A star researcher fabricates the results of experiments funded by grants. The data is published, the truth is ...

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

Colleges will have more discretion in how they handle research-misconduct cases under a revised federal rule released Thursday. The final rule, from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, marks the ...

Jensen is founder and CEO of Etalia, a health research communications and training firm. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services published new policies on research misconduct, which ...

Science has the potential to address some of the most important problems in society and for that to happen, scientists have to be trusted by society and they have to be able to trust each others’ work ...

Misconduct or scientific misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, reviewing or reporting on research. UMass Lowell’s definition also includes unsafe ...

Hispanic adults have broadly positive views of medical scientists, as well as of scientists generally. Yet their views of medical research scientists – and the work they do – are nuanced, with ...

Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist by training, has become one of the world’s most influential science detectives. An authority on scientific image analysis who’s been profiled in The New Yorker for her ...

When the current federal administration took office, it issued a memorandum requiring, among other things, that federal agencies delay the issuance of new or proposed rules to the Office of the ...

The purpose of these Guidelines and Procedures is to describe the procedures at the University of Nevada, Reno (the University) for responding to allegations of research misconduct, and to comply with ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The scientific research enterprise is a cornerstone of modern society. In the United ...