COLUMBUS, Ohio -A former Cleveland State University professor is accused of mishandling data from two child studies and ...

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.

On June 4, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity (“ORI”) published a Sample Policies and Procedures for Addressing Allegations of Research Misconduct ...

Research misconduct is falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, or other serious deviation from commonly accepted practices in the relevant scientific community for proposing, performing or reviewing ...

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 ...

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

Harvard University has had a rough few months. It seemed as though the series of scandals that beset the once-revered university had culminated in the resignation of Claudine Gay, its former president ...

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 ...

Misconduct or scientific misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, reviewing or reporting on research. UMass Lowell’s definition also includes unsafe ...

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 ...

Research misconduct or misconduct in research means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism, in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting ...

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 ...