Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
Research integrity and misconduct
Federal regulations require that the university assume primary responsibility for prevention, detection, and investigation of research misconduct and take action to ensure the integrity of research. University policies establish standards of ethical behavior for all members of the university community and prescribe procedures for due process and discipline for deviation from those standards.
This page provides information on policies and regulations relating to research misconduct. Specifically, this covers allegations of fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism, in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.
| Campus program | Research Integrity Officer |
|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | Linda Rugg, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research |
| UC Davis | Craig Allison, Director of Research Compliance & Integrity |
| UC Irvine | Craig Walsh, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Jill Kay, Director of Research Policy (administrative contact) |
| UCLA | Roger Wakimoto, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research Ann Pollack, Associate Vice Chancellor of Research (administrative contact) |
| UC Merced | Marjorie Zatz, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research Leslie Teixeira-Porto, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research (administrative contact) |
| UC Riverside |
Rodolfo H. Torres, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Gillian Wilson, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development (administrative contact) |
| UC San Diego | Sandra A. Brown, Vice Chancellor for Research Angela Fornataro McMahill, Executive Director, Research Compliance and Integrity (administrative contact) |
| UC San Francisco | Brian Smith, Interim Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Kelly Simmons, Assistant Research Integrity Officer (administrative contact) |
| UC Santa Barbara | Joe Incandela, Vice Chancellor for Research Barry Rowan, Research Integrity Director |
| UC Santa Cruz | John Macmillan, Research Integrity Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Bill Johansen, Interim Research Integrity Officer |
| UC Office of the President | Shanda Hunt, Systemwide Research Compliance Manager |
| Agriculture & Natural Resources | Wendy Powers, Associate Vice President |
Policies
Recent and Notable ORI Research Misconduct Cases
The July 13, 2018, Administrative Law Judge Decision, U.S. Department of Health vs. Dr. Christian Kreipke, imposed a five-year debarment after finding that Kreipke recklessly caused or permitted twenty-three (23) instances of research misconduct in his three (3) grant applications, two (2) articles on which he was the first listed author, and two (2) posters on which he was the first listed author. The judge precisely defined “reckless” within the context of research misconduct in his ruling that Kreipke “used materials without exercising proper care or caution and disregarded or was indifferent to the risk that the material were false, fabricated, or plagiarized.”Resources
- Office of Research Integrity, Handling Misconduct
- Office of Research Integrity, Policy on Plagiarism
- Office of Research Integrity, Responsible Conduct of Research - Authorship
- Office of Research Integrity - 'The Lab' (interactive movie on research misconduct)
- Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication, Publication Ethics