RESEARCH AND

PUBLICATION ETHICS

FABRICATION IN RESEARCH

Presented by
D. Rajitha
Research Scholar, Civil Engineering,
College of Engineering Trivandrum.
RESEARCH MISCONDUCT
• Fabrication.
• Falsification.
• Plagiarism.
Fabrication 
The creation of non- existent data and results and
the act of recording and reporting them.
Where it happens
• In academics.
• Scientific research studies.
• Interviews.
Reasons for fabrication
• To get degree.
• Promotion.
• Pressure.
• Fame.
• Money.
• Less funds.
• To make project economical.
• Lack of institutional moral support
• Politics.
• Policies.
• Limited protection.
Consequences
Illegal.
Detrimental.
Erode trust.
Guilty.
Jailed.
Carer damage.
Loss of job.
Fabrication cases
• Diederik Stapel, a former professor of Social
Psychology in the Netherlands, who made up most of
his data. Has currently over 58 retracted papers.
• Yoshitaka Fujii, a Japanese researcher with over 180
retractions, 126 of which were “totally fabricated”.
• Yoshihiro Sato, a Japanese bone researcher who passed
away in 2017, and was found to have fabricated at least
20 studies.