TENK's statement summaries

Last updated 22.4.2024

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 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.

2020

Doctor of Natural Sciences A alleged that between 2005 and 2006 a university’s Emeritus Professor B had made it difficult…

2020

Doctor of Natural Sciences A suspected that researchers and directors of a research institute were guilty of falsification or disregard for the…

2019

Researcher A from the field of social sciences saw that researcher B from the same field wrote a chapter in a web publication that had matching…

2019

Researcher A suspected researchers B, C and D of disregard for the responsible conduct of research by not including A in the list of editors in a…

2019

Professor A suspected that researcher B from the field of technology has exaggerated their achievements in their curriculum vitae (CV).…

2019

Based on a preliminary inquiry, a university saw that Master of Arts A was guilty of a violation of the responsible conduct of research in their…

2019

Company X alleged that a report written by researchers in the field of technology was not impartial. The report was used as an expert opinion in a…

2019

Researcher A from the field of law suspected reviewer B to be guilty of inappropriately hampering the work of a researcher in the application…

2019

Researcher A from the field of social sciences suspected that doctoral student B had plagiarised A’s doctoral dissertation…

2019

Master of Arts A applying for doctoral studies in arts suspected that lecturer B had plagiarised and misappropriated a new idea developed in A’s…

2019

Researcher C from the field of science and technology, mentioned in the previous statement summary, requested a statement from TENK concerning the…

2019

Researchers A and B from the field of science and technology deemed researcher C to have exaggerated their curriculum vitae (CV) in applying for a…

2018

Docent A felt that interviews conducted in a project in the field of humanities had been carried out in part in a manner that might cause…

2018

Doctor A made the allegation that the application documents of doctor B, who had been elected as professor in the field of arts, included…

2018

A, who had been working as a research assistant in a project in the field of engineering, noticed after the end of their employment that the…

2018

Licentiate A in the field of humanities alleged that the supervisor of their dissertation, professor B, had plagiarised A’s research plan and…

2018

An association in the field of medicine and health sciences suspected that a doctoral dissertation in its field included plagiarism. It was a…

2018

Researchers A and B in the field of humanities felt that researcher C, active in a different science but investigating the same area, should have…

2018

Researcher A felt that as they were not identified as one of the authors in a collection of works published by university X based on the work of a…

2018

Docent A had made an allegation to the university’s rector, stating that a doctoral dissertation being examined at the department of medicine…