TENK's statement summaries

Last updated 7.6.2024

On this page you can search summaries of statements issued by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK concerning allegations of violations of research integrity (RI).

Allegations of RI violations are always investigated within the organisation in which the suspected violation occurred or where the person against whom the allegation is made was working when it occurred. Once the allegation has first been addressed under the organisation’s RI process, the party dissatisfied with the ruling may request a statement from TENK. 

TENK restricts its statement to questions of research integrity. Therefore its statements only state whether an RI investigation has been performed in accordance with the RI guidelines and whether there has been a violation of responsible conduct of research.

Direct references to involved parties and the organisations where the allegation in question was handled have been removed from the summaries. Summaries can be used e.g. for educational purposes under a CC BY license.

You can search the statement summaries by using the following filters. Links open in a new tab.

2013

Postdoctoral researcher X, in the field of natural sciences, was dissatisfied with the RCR procedures implemented at a certain university and…

2012

Teacher A, who works at a university of applied sciences, requested a statement from TENK and put forth the allegation that senior teacher B and…

2012

Disregard for responsible conduct of research in the abovementioned case concerning the field of medicine that was investigated at a university…

2012

Researcher A made a written report to a university on allegations of misconduct on responsible conduct of research in the field of natural…

2012

The party who requested a statement made a written report in 2011 on the allegation of unethical investigation methods in a textbook published by…

2011

One request for a statement asked whether a certain university should have conducted a full investigation in addition to the preliminary inquiry…

2011

The person requesting a statement had made a written notification regarding an alleged GSP violation in a textbook published jointly by a…

2011

The statement dealt with a GSP allegation, involving the social sciences, on the basis of which a university had failed to launch a preliminary…

2011

This request for a statement dealt with a medical researcher’s rights to a research group’s findings after the researcher had been dismissed from…

2011

A researcher working at natural science research organisation X made a GSP complaint alleging that an unpublished pro gradu thesis submitted by…

2011

The complainant was unsatisfied with a university’s decision to not accept for deliberation his/her GSP violation allegation in the field of the…

2010

A case of suspected fraud was investigated in a certain Finnish research organisation, in which the focus was on the work of a research post…