Academic integrity - Topics

Recycling your own conference paper into a journal article without saying so Dropping inconvenient outliers until the result looks significant Citing a paper you never opened because it turned up in someone else's reference list Whistleblowers who report lab fraud usually lose their careers before the accused does Should a supervisor be sanctioned when a student in their lab fabricates data? Salami slicing one study into five papers is misconduct even when every paper is accurate AI detectors flag non-native English writers far more often than native speakers Do students get to see the evidence against them before a misconduct hearing? Is paraphrasing someone else's argument into your own words still plagiarism? Appealing a misconduct finding rarely works unless the procedure itself was flawed An honor code without an enforcement body is a poster in the library Essay mills are legal in most countries and that is the main reason students keep buying them Where is the line between group work collaboration and unauthorized collusion? What happens step by step after a professor reports a student for suspected plagiarism? A warning at one university is expulsion at another for the same offence Translating a paper from another language and publishing it as original work What actually happens to a paper after it gets retracted? Second authorship behind a supervisor who did almost nothing Faking a Western blot image is easier than faking the data behind it Passing around completed assignment answers in a class group chat