1. Chapter 8: Research Misconduct Per Fors Luimar Correa Filho Zhen Qiu Fengzhen Sun

2. 1
RESEARCH MISCONDUCT

3. theft of others’ ideas and data
Narrow sense
theft of others’ ideas and data
plagiarism of other people’s texts
manipulation (or falsification) of data
Wide sense
other forms of reprehensible behavior
defamation of colleagues
exaggeration of one’s qualifications in applications
sabotage of colleagues’ work
sexual harassment
publication of the same study in multiple contexts

4. SUMMARY
Fabrication & falsification
Plagiarism & self-plagiarism
Establishing & preventing plagiarism
Addressing questions of misconduct

5. 2
THE ETHICAL DILEMMA

6. You and another PhD student at your department is often discussing research and send each other unfinished papers research.
One day, you find out that your colleague has used many of your data in a paper without citing or inviting you to co-write the paper with his.
When you confront your colleague, he argues that the ideas are his alone.
What can you do?

7. plagiarism ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
Plagiarism in research entails a researcher using material (texts, ideas, hypotheses, “designs”, methods, data, results or conclusions) consciously or through carelessness in such a way that it presents a misleading picture of the researcher’s contribution to the project at hand.

8. OPTION 1: Do nothing Pros Cons
Sacrifice/Damage of your research project
Low outcome perhaps leading to failure in following research funding applications
Risk of repeated misconduct behavior
Pros
Keep friendship/collaboration

9. OPTION 2: Communicate with this person privately
Cons
Cannot compensate your loss
Unable to realize this bad behavior profoundly
Pros
Keep your friendship/collaboration
Let him realize his behavior is a kind of research misconduct
Keep his research reputation.

10. OPTION 3: Talk to supervisors
Cons
Still cannot get any compensation from this behavior
let his supervisor doubt his research attitude and responsibility
Pros
Protection of both sides’ reputation
Avoid of this bad behavior repeated in some extents if the PhD student is educated
Let your own supervisor know your work
Help your supervisor choose cooperation carefully

11. OPTION 4: Report to the Journal
Cons
Break your collaboration
Both of your reputation is at risk somehow
Probable leakage of the privacy, such as the private information of patient in medicine research
time consuming
Pros
Rescure your loss perhaps
Combat against this research misconduct

12. Thanks for your attention!