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 |
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| UC Berkeley | Lok Siu, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research |
| UC Davis | Denise Ehlen, Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research |
| UC Irvine | Jill Kay, Director of Research Policy (administrative contact) |
| UCLA | Roger Wakimoto, Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Ann Pollack, Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities (administrative contact) |
| UC Merced | Leslie Teixeira-Porto, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research (administrative contact) |
| UC Riverside |
Rodolfo H. Torres, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Djurdjica Coss, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development (administrative contact) |
| UC San Diego | Corinne Peek-Asa, Vice Chancellor for Research |
| UC San Francisco | Brian Smith, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Kelly Simmons, Assistant Research Integrity Officer (administrative contact) |
| UC Santa Barbara | Barry Rowan, Research Integrity Director |
| UC Santa Cruz |
John Macmillan, Research Integrity Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Csilla M. Csaplár, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Research Administration and Compliance (administrative contact)
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| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Joerg Heber, Research Integrity Officer |
| UC Office of the President | Marci Copeland, Administrative Coordinator |
| Agriculture & Natural Resources | Brent D. Hales, Associate Vice President of Research and Extension |
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