Research Methodology

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Research Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights

Topic 5.3 of Research Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights

Research Misconduct: Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism

The three categories of research misconduct — fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism — illustrated with security-specific examples including a classifier retested under better conditions and reported as if it was always right, and the UGC 2018 four-level similarity penalty table for theses.

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By the end of this topic, you will

Define fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (FFP) and give a security-domain example of each
Explain why malware's own sandbox-evasion behaviour is an analogy for falsification in experiment design
Apply the UGC 2018 four-level plagiarism penalty table to a given similarity percentage and state the required consequence
Explain why a researcher can commit falsification without manually entering false numbers — and what that means for how methodology sections must be written

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Fabrication. Falsification. Plagiarism. The Field Builds on What Did Not Happen.

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Research Misconduct: Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism

Most research-integrity offices organise misconduct into three categories abbreviated FFP. What makes the security-domain versions worth studying separately is that the downstream consequences — defences that do not work, benchmarks that cannot be replicated — affect people who never read the paper that contained the misconduct.

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Citation Detective: Audit a Literature Review

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Research Ethics and IPR

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Spot the Violation

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Integrity Expressway

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