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THE COMMON TYPES OF ACADEMIC & RESEARCH MALPRACTICE

Authorship Abuse

Any kind of authorship attribution not based on genuine contribution (e.g. gift or guest authorship).

Source: ENAI Glossary for Academic Integrity (link)

Contract Cheating

Form of academic misconduct when a person uses a third party to assist them to produce work (e.g. dissertation), whether or not payment or favour is involved.

Source: ENAI Glossary for Academic Integrity (link)

Fabrication

Making up data, experiments, results, or other significant information and recording or reporting them.

Source: Adapted from: The Office of Research Integrity (ORI; link). In: ENAI Glossary for Academic Integrity (link)

Falsification

Manipulating educational, research or scholarship content, images, data, equipment, or processes in a way that they are inaccurately represented.

Source: Adapted from: Elsevier. Ethics in Research & Publication. Factsheet: Research Fraud (link). In: ENAI Glossary for Academic Integrity (link)

Exploitative Relationship

Mistreatment of person(s) in order to benefit from unmerited advantages.

Source: ENAI Glossary for Academic Integrity (link)

Plagiarism

Using other people’s work and ideas without giving proper credit to the original source, thus violating the rights of the original author(s) to their intellectual outputs.

Source: European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (link) and ENAI Glossary for Academic Integrity (link)

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