Misconduct in research
Research misconduct is constituted by a failure to comply with the
Code of Conduct for Research and includes conduct in, or in connection with, research that is (a) dishonest, reckless or negligent and (b) seriously deviates from accepted standards within the scientific and scholarly community for proposing, conducting or reporting research. This includes:
- the fabrication or falsification of data or results,
- the use of another person's ideas, work or data without appropriate acknowledgement (plagiarism),
- misleading ascription of authorship to a publication including the listing of authors without their permission, attributing work to people who have not in fact contributed to the publication, the lack of appropriate acknowledgement of work primarily produced by a research student/trainee or associate,
- failure to disclose conflicts of interest or cases where a conflict of interest might reasonably be perceived to exist, and
- failure to obtain the required prior ethical or regulatory approval for the research project to proceed; or failure to conduct the research project in accord with the approved ethical or regulatory protocol.
Misconduct does not include honest errors or honest differences in interpretation or judgments of data.