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 2025-09This case concerned an authorship issue relating to social safety. The LOWI upheld the decision that the researcher in question may be offered standard authorship, but due to circumstances was not allowed to be a senior (last) or corresponding author.
- Advisory opinion 2025-08A complaint about publications from around 20 years earlier was declared inadmissible. A complaint about a debate in the academic forum was declared unfounded because the issue at stake constituted a professional difference of opinion and not a matter of research integrity.
- Decision 2025-07This case, involving plagiarism, was handled by the universities without the person who reported the plagiarism and who did not want to be involved in the dispute. The petition submitted to the LOWI was declared inadmissible.
- Advisory opinion 2025-06In this case, the failure to report the fact that the PhD candidate simultaneously had several PhD positions at different Dutch universities was considered to constitute conduct lacking in transparency. However, it did not constitute research misconduct.
- Advisory Opinion 2025-05A manual was not found to contain plagiarism.
- Advisory opinion 2025-04In this case, the professor in question was completely free not to act as a candidate’s PhD supervisor because he did not think the research proposal was good enough and he had too little time. These activities did not constitute supervision as referred to in the Code of Conduct.
- Advisory opinion 2025-03The university board rightly decided not to handle a complaint about an independent advisory board.
- Advisory opinion 2025-01 and 2025-02In this case, the complaint filed against the research institution was declared inadmissible. The complaint filed against an individual was declared unfounded because it was not imputable to the defendant as a breach of the standards set in the Code of Conduct. This did not alter the fact that the grant application contained an unfounded ...
- Advisory opinion 2024-23The researcher in this case combined being employed by a consultancy with a part-time endowed professorship. Having assessed all the relevant facts and circumstances, the LOWI concluded that the standards set in the Code of Conduct were not applicable. The circumstances in this case differed from those in the LOWI Advisory Opinion 2021-20.
- Advisory opinion 2024-22In this case, research had been commissioned by a government body. The complaint was considered to be unfounded. The case concerned a substantive difference in opinion between researchers rather than a possible breach of research integrity.