Scientific integrity/What to do in the event of a breach ?

Do you have any doubts or questions? You can contact in complete confidentiality :

• Scientific integrity committee
  • More about the committee
• Scientific integrity officer (appointed by the Observatory Director on January 1st, 2021)
• Reporting platform Unica (in french only).

Fraud typology

The most serious

• Generic scientific fraud
  • Data production
  • Data falsification
  • Plagiarism
• Data fraud
  • If you do not store primary data
  • Poor data retention or management practices
  • Withholding data from the scientific community
• Publication fraud
  • Obtaining an abusive author position
  • Denying authorship to contributors
  • Artificially multiplying publications

 More info

The Observatoire's Scientific Integrity Committee has developed an analysis grid for plagiarism-related breaches adapted to STU.

A code/software/calculation breach grid is being developed.