Good Practice and Reporting Cases in Switzerland
ResourcesGood Practice and Reporting Cases in Switzerland
What is this about?
This is the 2017 annual report for the Swiss National Science Foundation's Commission on Scientific Integrity and Plagiarism Control Group. In it, these two bodies report on their activities.
The Plagiarism Control Group checks the research proposals submitted to the SNSF.
The Commission on Research Integrity is responsible for identifying cases of scientific misconduct in connection with applications for SNSF grants or the use thereof. If the suspected misconduct concerns the use of SNSF funding, then the Commission assists the institution where the misconduct is believed to have taken place.
In the reporting year, the Commission worked with research institutions in the investigations of three misconduct cases, two of which related to data manipulation and one related to fraud.Why is this important?
For whom is this important?
What are the best practices?
The Plagiarism Control Group checks the research proposals submitted to the SNSF both at random (5% of all submissions) and when it is alerted to potential research integrity cases by persons outside the SNSF.
The SNSF uses the iThenticate software, produced by Turnitin, in order to compare research proposals with texts on the internet and scientific databases. Only results with a similarity index of ≥ 10% and/or the largest possible degree of correspondence of >200 words are followed up.
