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What is Research integrity?

Also known as: fabrication · falsification · plagiarism

Definition 33.21 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 33 — Lab Techniques III: Research Practice

Research integrity is the honest and transparent conduct and reporting of research. Its gravest breaches are fabrication (inventing data), falsification (altering data, images or procedures) and plagiarism (presenting others’ work as one’s own).

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