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 2019-14In two English-language publications, the person concerned has copied substantial parts from scientific work by, among others, the applicant without referring to its origin. This is culpably careless. An important factor in this qualification is that the person concerned did not wish to rectify the English-language publications despite the advice to that effect from the ...
- Advisory opinion 2019-13Repeated complaint. The LOWI recommends that in future cases more alignment be sought with strict jurisprudence on the concept of nova. The right to complain is not intended to repeatedly submit complaints about one and the same publication with different arguments or other alleged violations of standards of scientific integrity.
- Advisory opinion 2019-12Well-founded complaint about data manipulation in various publications and parts of a thesis. The fabrication and falsification of data qualifies as a violation of scientific integrity. Scientists and others must be able to rely on the fact that all data presented by the petitioner as found data have actually been found. However, that trust has ...
- Advisory opinion 2019-11Summary to be added.
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- Advisory opinion 2019-05Summary to be added.