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O N L I N E R E S E A R C H E T H I C S C O U R S E Section One: Interpersonal Responsibility CASE STUDY: Dealing with Disappointment Offer Accepted. John gratefully accepted the materials and got to work writing the article. Dr. Smith decided to write up the results for her presentation abstract based on the findings she had expected to see. Her plan was to then get busy finding out what had gone wrong with John's work. Both John's and Dr. Smith's choices are ethically and legally prohibited. If John writes up the material and takes credit for the experiment as though it is his work, he has plagiarized. Plagiarism is using the work of another without giving appropriate credit. Dr. Smith cannot ethically give her work, or the work of others, as a gift to John. John's acceptance of first authorship as a gift ultimately deceives the profession as a whole. Reviewers and readers of the resulting journal article will be intentially led to a false conclusion -- namely, that John is responsibile for at least a significant proportion of the work presented in the article. If Dr. Smith writes up the results for her abstract as she expected the findings to be, rather than what they are, she has fabricated the results. Plagiarism and fabrication are both examples of research misconduct.
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