...grant or cooperative agreements, including continuation awards, whether competing or noncompeting. The organization assumes legal and financial accountability...the Director of the National Institutes for Health (NTH), which oversees the implementation of all PHS policies and procedures related to scientific misconduct;...

...research funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) define misconduct in science as "fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or other...for proposing, conducting, or reporting research" (7). History Faking or deliberate misrepresentation of scientific and technical data, falsification...

...following definition for "misconduct in science": "(1) fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, deception or other practices that seriously deviate from those...community for proposing, conducting or reporting research; or (2) material failure to comply with federal requirements that [are] uniquely related to the conduct...

...misconduct in the Final Rule now is the authoritative definition. It states that scientific misconduct "means fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or...for proposing, conducting, or reporting research". Documents containing a similar but nonidentical definition, notably the Interim Public Health Service...

...on valid judgmental differences. We also proposed striking from the proposed definition the phrase, "other practices that seriously deviate from those...proposing, conducting, or reporting research." It is our view that this language is vague and its inclusion could discourage unorthodox, novel, or highly...

..."Misconduct" or "misconduct in science" means fabrication, plagiarism, or other practices that ^ "g ;H seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted...conducting, or reporting research. It does not include error or honest differences in interpretations or judgments of data. O ~O CL S. a * 8 T3 J) *ȣ i^s...

...and institutions, NIH defined misconduct as: ( 1 ) fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, deception or other practices that seriously deviate from those...community for proposing, conducting or reporting research; or (2) material failure to comply with Federal requirements that uniquely relate to the conduct of...

...Federal Register notices the definition was changed to 'fabrication, classification, plagiarism, ox, other practices that seriously deviate from those...for proposing, conducting or reporting research.' Although the change may seem Inconsequential, I would suggest to you that the latter Is a major change...

...Research Integrity upon request; and Research misconduct is defined by the Public Health Service as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other practices...not include honest error or honest differences in interpretation or judgements of data. Falsification, fabrication or plagiarism in the grant application...

...falsification, plagiarism, or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted in the scientific community for proposing, conducting,...differences in interpretations or judgments of data" (p. 6). The definition invites differing interpretations because it is frequently difficult to decide...