Scholarly Misconduct definition

Scholarly Misconduct has the same meaning as given in University Policy Number 85: Scholarly Integrity;
Scholarly Misconduct means conduct that breaches the scholarly standards and practices that are generally accepted within the relevant scholarly field. This may include a failure to meet any of the expectations set out in section 2.1 of this Policy, and also includes the following:
Scholarly Misconduct means Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism, or any other practice that seriously deviates from practices commonly accepted in the discipline or in the academic and research communities. Scholarly Misconduct may take many forms, including, but not limited to, Improprieties of Authorship; Abuse of Confidentiality/Misappropriation of Ideas; Deliberate Misrepresentation of Qualifications; Deliberate Material Failure to Comply with Federal, State, or University Requirements Affecting Research; and Violation of Generally Accepted Research Practices. Other common terms such as research fraud, scientific misconduct, or research misconduct are subsumed within Scholarly Misconduct for the purposes of this policy. Scholarly Misconduct does not include appropriative practices in the Creative Arts insofar as they accord with accepted standards in the relevant discipline. Scholarly Misconduct does not include unintentional error or differences in the interpretation or judgment of Research data or results that can be reasonably substantiated by the data or results.

Examples of Scholarly Misconduct in a sentence

  • Research and Scholarly Misconduct Policies and Procedures apply to all research activities, whether they are unfunded, funded by the university, or have extramural funding from state, federal or private agencies.

  • Acts of Scholarly Misconduct may be committed with varying degrees of intent.

  • Inquiry means gathering information and initial fact-finding to determine whether an allegation or apparent instance of Scientific or Other Scholarly Misconduct warrants an investigation.

  • Allegation means any written or oral statement or other indication of possible Scientific or Other Scholarly Misconduct made to an institutional official.

  • Good faith allegation means an allegation made with the honest belief that Scientific or Other Scholarly Misconduct may have occurred.

  • Complainant means a person who makes an allegation of Scientific or Other Scholarly Misconduct.

  • Respondent means the person against whom an allegation of Scientific or Other Scholarly Misconduct is directed or the person whose actions are the subject of the inquiry or investigation.

  • The University will investigate allegations of Scholarly Misconduct made against those to whom this Policy applies in accordance with the procedures established under this Policy.

  • However, UBC Persons who have failed to exercise reasonable care in directing and supervising UBC Persons who have committed Scholarly Misconduct may share in the responsibility and be subject to discipline accordingly.

  • Disciplinary action may include termination of enrollment and/or degree revocation for a student found responsible for Scholarly Misconduct.


More Definitions of Scholarly Misconduct

Scholarly Misconduct means any conscious act of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or other behaviour that seriously deviates from commonly accepted practice in institutes of higher learning and scholarly communities in the proposing, conducting and reporting of research activities. This definition does not include differences of opinion or honest differences in the interpretation of research results.
Scholarly Misconduct means conduct that deviates from that which is acceptable within the relevant scholarly community, and includes, but is not limited to:
Scholarly Misconduct means conduct set out in Schedule “A” of this Policy.
Scholarly Misconduct means conduct that deviates significantly from that which is acceptable within the relevant scholarly community and includes without limitation:
Scholarly Misconduct means intentional, knowing, reckless, or irresponsible fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research or scholarship, or in reporting research results. Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them. Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record. Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Scholarly misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion.
Scholarly Misconduct means Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism, or any other practice that seriously deviates from practices commonly accepted in the discipline or in the academic and research communities. Scholarly Misconduct may take many forms, including, but not limited to, Improprieties of Authorship; Abuse of Confidentiality/Misappropriation of Ideas; Deliberate Misrepresentation of Qualifications; Deliberate Material Failure to Comply with Federal, State, or University Requirements Affecting Research; and Violation of Generally Accepted Research Practices. Other common terms such as research fraud, scientific misconduct, or research misconduct are subsumed within Scholarly Misconduct for the purposes of this policy.

Related to Scholarly Misconduct

  • Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion. As used in this definition, (i) “fabrication” means making up data or results and recording or reporting them; (ii) “falsification” means manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record; and (iii) “plagiarism” means the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.

  • Professional Misconduct means conduct inconsistent with the Act, this By-law, the Rules of Professional Conduct or the Standards and Guidelines of Practice that poses or may pose a risk of harm or loss to any person;

  • Willful Misconduct means intentional disregard of good and prudent standards of performance or proper conduct under the Contract with knowledge that it is likely to result in any injury to any person or persons or loss or damage of property.

  • Sexual misconduct means any verbal, nonverbal, written, or electronic communication, or any other act directed toward or with a student that is designed to establish a sexual relationship with the student, including a sexual invitation, dating or soliciting a date, engaging in sexual dialogue, making sexually suggestive comments, self-disclosure or physical exposure of a sexual or erotic nature, and any other sexual, indecent, or erotic contact with a student.

  • Gross Misconduct means any act or omission of the Contractor in violation of the most elementary rules of diligence which a conscientious Contractor in the same position and under the same circumstance would have followed.

  • Serious Misconduct means any misconduct identified as a ground for termination in the Motorola Code of Business Conduct, or the human resources policies, or other written policies or procedures.

  • Official misconduct means a notary's performance of any act prohibited or failure to perform any act mandated by this chapter or by any other law in connection with a notarial act.

  • Misconduct means the commission of any act of fraud, embezzlement or dishonesty by the Optionee or Participant, any unauthorized use or disclosure by such person of confidential information or trade secrets of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary), or any other intentional misconduct by such person adversely affecting the business or affairs of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary) in a material manner. The foregoing definition shall not in any way preclude or restrict the right of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary) to discharge or dismiss any Optionee, Participant or other person in the Service of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary) for any other acts or omissions, but such other acts or omissions shall not be deemed, for purposes of the Plan, to constitute grounds for termination for Misconduct.

  • Wilful Misconduct means intentional disregard of good and prudent standards of performance or proper conduct under the Contract with knowledge that it is likely to result in any injury to any person or persons or loss or damage of property.

  • Willful means any act or omission by the Executive that was in good faith and with a reasonable belief that the action or omission was in the best interests of the Company or its affiliates. Any act or omission based upon authority given pursuant to a duly adopted Board resolution, or, upon the instructions of any senior officer of the Company, or based upon the advice of counsel for the Company will be conclusively presumed to be taken or omitted by the Executive in good faith and in the best interests of the Company and/or its affiliates.

  • Gross Negligence means any act or failure to act (whether sole, joint or concurrent) by a person or entity which was intended to cause, or which was in reckless disregard of or wanton indifference to, avoidable and harmful consequences such person or entity knew, or should have known, would result from such act or failure to act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Gross negligence shall not include any action taken in good faith for the safeguard of life or property.

  • Intentional for purposes of this Agreement, no act or failure to act on the part of the Executive shall be deemed to have been intentional if it was due primarily to an error in judgment or negligence. An act or failure to act on the Executive’s part shall be considered intentional if it is not in good faith and if it is without a reasonable belief that the action or failure to act is in the best interests of the Bank.

  • Business owned by a person with a disability means a business concern that is at least 51% owned by one or more persons with a disability and the management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more of the persons with disabilities who own it. A not- for-profit agency for persons with disabilities that is exempt from taxation under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is also considered a "business owned by a person with a disability".

  • Willful and Material Breach means a material breach that is a consequence of an act undertaken by the breaching party or the failure by the breaching party to take an act it is required to take under this Agreement, with knowledge that the taking of or failure to take such act would, or would reasonably be expected to, result in, constitute or cause a breach of this Agreement.

  • Negligence means the failure to exercise "Reasonable Care".

  • Malfeasance means with respect to any Entity or person, any act or omission which constitutes fraud, bad faith, willful misconduct or gross negligence, whether in respect of the Council or otherwise.

  • Protected Activity means filing a charge, complaint, or report with, or otherwise communicating, cooperating, or participating in any investigation or proceeding that may be conducted by, any federal, state or local government agency or commission, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the National Labor Relations Board (the “Government Agencies”). The Employee understands that in connection with such Protected Activity, the Employee is permitted to disclose documents or other information as permitted by law, and without giving notice to, or receiving authorization from, the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Employee agrees to take all reasonable precautions to prevent any unauthorized use or disclosure of any information that may constitute Company confidential information to any parties other than the Government Agencies. The Employee further understands that “Protected Activity” does not include the disclosure of any Company attorney-client privileged communications. Any language in any other agreement between the Company and the Employee regarding the Employee’s right to engage in Protected Activity that conflicts with, or is contrary to, this paragraph is superseded by this Agreement. In addition, pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, the Employee is notified that an individual will not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that (i) is made in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official (directly or indirectly) or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or (ii) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if (and only if) such filing is made under seal. In addition, an individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the individual’s attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual files any document containing the trade secret under seal and does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

  • Criminal sexual activity means the commission of an act as defined in Section 886 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, which is the act of sodomy; and

  • School-Sponsored Activity means any activity sponsored, recognized or authorized by the Board and includes activities conducted on or off school property.

  • Illegal Activity means the wilful possession of an illegal drug, dangerous object, or stolen item.

  • Outside Activity means any private practice, private consulting, additional teaching or research, or other activity, compensated or uncompensated, which is not part of the employee's assigned duties and for which the University has provided no compensation.

  • Fraud means any offence under Laws creating offences in respect of fraudulent acts or at common law in respect of fraudulent acts in relation to the Contract or defrauding or attempting to defraud or conspiring to defraud the Crown.