What to and What not to do: A Primer on Research Misconduct

Abstract

Good research practice is vital to the scientific community. An awareness of what constitutes poor practice is important. Research misconduct means Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism and, violation of authorship rules in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Willful manipulation is called falsification. Generating/creating/inventing Cook up data or Inferring from incomplete data sets is fabrication. Plagiarism means using someone else’s intellectual property (content, idea, language) without giving due credit. Article discussed about types of plagiarism, penalties as per UGC regulations and how to avoid plagiarism.