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Record 1 2015-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research
CONT

... about scientific fraud... The most extreme cases are obvious : manufacturing data and altering experimental results. Then there is plagiarism : using someone else's text or data without acknowledgement. More difficult are the borderline cases : minor fudging of data, reporting only the good results and not citing other people's work that should be given credit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche scientifique
DEF

[...] action destinée à tromper dans le champ de la recherche scientifique.

CONT

Selon la nature et la gravité des gestes posés, on distingue diverses catégories d'inconduite scientifique : la négligence, le non-respect des droits individuels, le conflit d'intérêts et la fraude scientifique.

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