Research Misconduct Resources
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
- Infographics [HTML]
- Forensic Tools (ex. Droplets) [HTML]
- Findings of Research Misconduct Case Summaries [HTML]
- Newsletters [HTML]
- "The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct" [HTML]: Interactive movie on Research Misconduct
- "The Research Clinic" [HTML]: The interactive training video educates clinical and social researchers on the importance of appropriately protecting research participants and avoiding research misconduct.
- Forensically [HTML]: free tools for forensic image analysis
- 28 Guidelines at a Glance on Avoiding Plagiarism [HTML] (includes self-plagiarism)
Plagiarism Tools
- Plagiarisma [HTML]: free online plagiarism checker
- iThenticate [HTML]: UK has a subscription
- Plagiarism Check.org [HTML]: helps detect similarities and produces unbiased results; UK does not have a subscription, please see the Pricing tab on this website for information
- Google Scholar [HTML]: free online resource; provides a broad search of scholarly literature
- SimTexter [HTML]: side-by-side text-comparison tool; free online resource
Scientific Integrity Watchdogs
- PubPeer [HTML]
- Retraction Watch [HTML]
- Twitter: Elisabeth Bik@MicrobiomDigest [HTML]: tweets about microbiome research, duplicated images, and other cases of misconduct in biomedical literature
- Science Integrity Digest [HTML]: a blog about scientific integrity by Elisabeth Bik
Other
- Grammarly [HTML]: free online resource; checks grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.
- University of Kentucky Good Research Practice Resource Center [HTML]