The adjustments are intended to both streamline the existing review system and to align it with regulations at the federal ...

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 ...

Research misconduct and questionable practice appear to be increasingly prevalent. This has a direct impact on public trust in science, the quality of research and the effective use of research funds.

A new study from Chalmers University of Technology suggests that research misconduct may leave traces in the text itself, not ...

On 12 September 2024, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule (Final Rule) that significantly modified the standards, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, the NIH announced that it had found evidence of research misconduct by Eliezer Masliah, M.D., the head of the neuroscience division at the National Institute on Aging. The NIH announcement ...

It is the policy of the University at Buffalo to maintain high ethical standards in research and other scholarly work, prevent misconduct where possible, and promptly and fairly evaluate and resolve ...

Susan, a graduate student in biology, notices that some of the data that she’s helped collect is not accurately reflected in several figures that appear in the published version of the paper she was a ...