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 2021-08This case concerns policy research. There is a penetrating attempt by a direct interested party to influence the results of an investigation. The LOWI qualifies the lack of transparency about this in the reporting by interested parties as questionable behaviour.
- Advisory opinion 2021-07Publication in a legal journal. The scientists should have presented knowledge from another field more carefully, less one-sidedly and with more uncertainty. They should also not have diagnosed an individual. The rectification offered is inadequate. The LOWI advises to enter into consultation on appropriate recovery measures. One can think of withdrawing the article.
- Advisory opinion 2021-06Violation of research integrity. See 2021-07.
- Advisory opinion 2021-05This case concerns an unfinished dissertation. The fact that different doctoral candidates are awarded a PhD on the same subjects, or that a supervisor supervises different dissertations on the same subject, does not lead to questions about research integrity.
- Advisory opinions 2021-03 and 04Insufficient transparency about the funding of research. The organization that commissioned the research must be distinguished from the five companies that funded the research and that had an independent interest in that research. The LOWI considers that not mentioning these financiers is culpably careless.
- Advisory opinion 2021-02No plagiarism. The Interested Party has published about the same scientific problem, but not about the same scientific idea. The principle of hearing and rebuttal requires that parties are given the opportunity to respond to an expert report.
- Advisory opinion 2021-01LOWI endorses an inadmissible declaration of a complaint. A scientist who accuses another scientist of violating a principle of research integrity can be expected to be able to clearly and concisely formulate which action he believes constitutes a violation and why.
- Advisory opinion 2020-22Pharmaceutical research. At its core, the Petition amounts to a scientific controversy. LOWI does not have the competence to judge scientific controversies.
- Advisory opinion 2020-21In principle, a RIC is not obliged to share raw data with a complainant. All co-authors are responsible for a publication, but not equally. A member of the RIC supervised the PhD degree of the corresponding author and should therefore have excused himself. The identity of an expert is relevant in order to be able ...
- Advisory opinion 2020-20In particular, the unjustified listing of a co-author is a serious violation, which according to the LOWI should be classified as a violation of research integrity. Scientists should not be judged on errors and carelessness in draft versions.