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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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How to deal with a published PhD thesis plagiarizing an Independent research work?

Hi, Thank you for your work and for providing this space. I’m an independent researcher and an article I published in an online journal was plagiarized in a Ph.D. thesis from an American university (name omitted for confidentiality purposes). The institution denies plagiarism after I submitted six pages of instances of academic integrity …

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My thesis has been plagiarized several times. What can I do?

I was informed by a colleague that a pair of presenters (I don’t want to publish their name) presented a paper at a conference, which was strikingly similar to my original work submitted about a year ago and awarded prestigious awards. A formal complaint was mailed to the conference organizers. After a few weeks of formal …

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Plagiarized Medium article

Hello everyone,a few months back I have written an article about an open source project we are working on: https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/data-driven-approach-to-forms-with-react-c69fd4ea7923 Today, I have discovered (I was googling references to our project) that an another author has used whole paragraphs from my article in his tutorial on the same web without any citations: https://medium.com/@yudhajitadhikary/how-to-create-reactive-forms-using-data-driven-forms-in-react-be551a774ff1 I would …

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How I Met with Contract Cheating

Özgür Çelik (Balikesir University, Türkiye)

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24. 3. 2023

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Academic integrity is a fundamental principle that universities and educational institutions require students to uphold. All students are expected to complete their …

Is ChatGPT changing everything now?

Oliver Trevisiol (University of Konstanz, Germany)

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24. 2. 2023

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Efforts to safeguard academic integrity and fair assessment received a new challenge in November 2022, with ChatGPT, artificial intelligence entering the market …

What to do when AI tools publish papers under your name?

Rita Santos

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16. 2. 2023

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“Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their name have backed plans for legal …

A Call for Whistleblowers

Rita Santos

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16. 2. 2023

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When Matthew Schrag (a neurologist at Vanderbilt University, USA) shocked the Alzheimer disease’s scientific community in 2022 with claims of significant misconduct …

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