Statements and Summaries from the Research Ethics Committee
This page contains selected disidentified statements and summaries from the Research Ethics Committee at the University of Oslo. The aim is to contribute to learning and consistent practices in research ethics cases and to provide insight into the case proceedings.
Statements
The following statements are the complete, disidentified statements in cases that have been handled by the Research Ethics Committee. They have been selected as they provide good examples of how specific research ethics questions were assessed, and/or because they include matters of principle.
Disidentification has been achieved by removing certain details and replacing them with descriptive terms in square brackets. The keywords represent the central themes considered in the cases but do not reveal the conclusions.
- 2022/40054: Change of Author Order, Supervisor Role, Criticism of Institutional Organisation (PDF)
- 2022/40488: The Review Process, Author Order, Relation to Colleagues, Criticism of Institutional Organisation (PDF)
- 2023/1559: Clarification of Co-authorship, Breach of Trust in International Collaboration (PDF)
- 2023/2046: Plagiarism of Ideas and Design, Communication, Conflict Management (PDF)
Summaries of Statements
The summaries below are not part of the respective cases but provide an overview of the outcome, themes, and issues that were addressed. The keywords represent the central themes considered in the cases but do not reveal the conclusions.
- 2018/13683: Clarification of Co-authorship, Duty to Publish
- 2019/4131: Plagiarism, Overlapping Projects, Clarification of Co-Authorship
- 2019/12601: Plagiarism, Minor Breach of Proper Citation Practices
- 2020/1000: Fabricated Data
- 2020/2273: Plagiarism of Ideas and Methods, the Supervisor Role
- 2020/2281: Method Plagiarism and Figure Plagiarism
- 2020/6498: "Self-Plagiarism", "Salami Publication," and Fabrication
- 2021/4769: Confidentiality, Participation in a Similar Project, Authorship, Affiliation
- 2021/20845: Method Plagiarism, Clarification of Authorship
- 2022/40054: Change of Author Order, Supervisor Role, Criticism of Institutional Organisation
- 2022/40488: The Review Process, Author Order, Relation to Colleagues, Criticism of Institutional Organisation
- 2023/1559: Clarification of Co-Authorship, Breach of Trust
- 2023/2046: Plagiarism of Ideas and Design, Communication, Conflict Management
- 2023/15205: Discrepancy in Contribution Description
- 2023/16382: Transparency in International Collaborations, Affiliation
- 2024/2203: Conflict of Interest, Scientific Disagreement
- 2024/17279: Research Ethical Assessment of Popular Science Non-fiction, Reuse of Own Text
- 2024/9380: Citation Practices in the Use of the Same Theory and Older Sources, and Across Different Fields
Contact
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