Misconduct in Research
The Office of Research assists with managing Misconduct in Research.
Misconduct is defined as:
- Research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, in proposing,
of reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Fabrication is making up
data or results or recording or reporting them. Falsification is manipulating research
materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or research results
such that research is not accurately represented in the research record. Plagiarism
is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without
giving appropriate credit. Misconduct does not include honest error or honest differences
in opinion.
- Preponderance of the evidence means proof by information that, compared with that
opposing it, leads to the conclusion that the fact at issue is more probably tine
than not (42 CFR 93.219).