Research misconduct:

Fabrication refers to reporting invented observations to the research community. In other words, the fabricated observations have not been made by using the methods as claimed in the research report. Fabrication also means presenting invented results in a research report.

Falsification (misrepresentation) refers to modifying and presenting original observations deliberately so that the results based on those observations are distorted. The falsification of results refers to the unfounded modification or selection of research results. Falsification also refers to the omission of results or information that are essential for the conclusions.

Plagiarism or unacknowledged borrowing, refers to representing another person’s material as one’s own without appropriate references. This includes research plans, manuscripts, articles, other texts or parts of them, visual materials, or translations. Plagiarism includes direct copying as well as adapted copying.

Misappropriation refers to the unlawful presentation of another person’s result, idea, plan, observation or data as one’s own research.

Disregard for the responsible conduct of research

Denigrating the role of other researchers in publications, such as neglecting to mention them, and referring to earlier research results inadequately or inappropriately

Reporting research results and methods in a careless manner, resulting in misleading claims

Publishing the same research results multiple times ostensibly as new and novel results (redundant publication, also referred to as selfplagiarism)

Misleading the research community in other ways

Preventing any harm caused to the research subject
Guiding principles:
- right of self-determination
- prevention of harm
- privacy and personal data protection

Process can be implemented also if the study’s publication forum, financier or an international cooperation partner requests it.

See more: TENK 2019 (Finnish / Swedish / English)

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