"misconduct in research" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to unethical behavior in research, such as falsifying data or manipulating results. For example, "The professor was expelled for misconduct in research after it was discovered that he had been deliberately altering his study's results."
There is a "troubling discrepancy," Steneck observed, "between public statements about how 'rare' misconduct in research supposedly is and the more private belief on the part of many researchers that it is fairly common".
"The first step in this process is to request an official statement from the Central Ethical Review Board's expert group for misconduct in research," a statement said.
These are contained in the Faculty Handbook: Responsibilities of Officers of Instruction and Research and the Columbia University Institutional Policy on Misconduct in Research.
However, academic dishonesty and misconduct (for which the procedures in Section 10.1 Procedures for Dealing with Academic Misconduct in Research and Scholarship are also applicable), disregard of duties, violation of Institute policy, harassment, and criminal acts are among the offenses that may call for disciplinary action.
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) provides oversight for investigations of misconduct in research conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service.
In other council news, Dr. Geeta Swamy, vice dean of the School of Medicine and associate vice provost for scientific integrity, presented revisions to the Misconduct in Research policy in Appendix P in the Faculty Handbook.
The committee found that Professor Wansink committed academic misconduct in his research and scholarship, including misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques, failure to properly document and preserve research results, and inappropriate authorship.
On Sept. 20, the university announced that a yearlong investigation had found that he committed "academic misconduct in his research and scholarship, including misreporting of research data," and that he had tendered his resignation.
This could indeed be the case, because medical research is a preferred target of research and training programs in scientific integrity, and because the severe social and legal consequences of misconduct in medical research might motivate respondents to report it.
Dr. Butler was largely acquitted of misconduct in his research.
Those who document misconduct in scientific research talk of a spectrum of bad practices.
