This is a list of short summaries of advisory opinions. The list also includes decisions. In these cases, LOWI has declared the petition inadmissible. It has therefore not examined the substance of the petition and has not issued an advisory opinion.
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- Advisory opinion 2025-11Complaint by former PhD candidate should be declared inadmissible because it is a conflict governed by the Promotion Regulations and not the Code of Conduct.
- Decision 2025-10The petition is declared inadmissible because it was filed too late. No question of an exceptional situation. That it happens more often that important emails do not arrive at the petitioner is a circumstance for which he himself is responsible.
- Advisory opinion 2025-09Authorship issue involving social safety. Decision that the scientist in question may be offered regular authorship, but may not be a senior (last) author or corresponding author due to circumstances, upholds before the LOWI.
- Advisory opinion 2025-08Complaint about publications from about 20 years ago is inadmissible. Complaint about debate in scientific forum is unfounded because it concerns a professional difference of opinion and not research integrity.
- Decision 2025-07Plagiarism case was handled by universities without the person who reported the plagiarism, who did not want to be involved in any dispute. Petition to the LOWI is inadmissible.
- Advisory opinion 2025-06The fact that the PhD candidate had multiple PhD positions at different Dutch universities at the same time without reporting this, is not transparent. However, this is not research misconduct.
- Advisory Opinion 2025-05No plagiarism in manual.
- Advisory opinion 2025-04In this case, the professor was completely free not to act as someone's supervisor because he did not think the research proposal was good enough and because he had too little time. No supervising activities as mentioned in the code of conduct.
- Advisory opinion 2025-03University board rightly decided not to pursue complaint about independent advisory board.
- Advisory opinion 2025-01 and 2025-02Complaint filed against research institution is inadmissible. Complaint filed against individual is unfounded because it is not imputable to defendant as breach of the standards of the code of conduct. This does not alter the fact that the grant application contained an unfounded claim. LOWI advises to send this advisory opinion to the grant provider.