TENK's statement summaries

Last updated 20.3.2023

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

Allegations of RCR 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 RCR 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 RCR investigation has been performed in accordance with the RCR 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.

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2018

A, a former doctoral student of the university, requested a statement from TENK in a case in which the university’s investigations had started…

2017

An association acting in the field of social sciences suspected that falsification had occurred in two doctoral dissertations of the field.…

2017

A university lecturer presented the university an allegation of an RCR violation concerning a postgraduate student in agriculture and forestry who…

2017

Doctor A presented an allegation that exaggeration of one’s own scientific and scholarly achievements occurred in the application documents of B,…

2017

An association operating in the field of medical and health sciences suspected plagiarism in a doctoral dissertation related to its field. The…

2017

A, a doctor in humanities, suspected that B, a professor in the same field, was guilty of misappropriation as well as inappropriate hampering and…

2017

A, a private person suspected that B, a lecturer at the university of applied sciences X, and C, a person belonging to the management of the…

2017

Docent A suspected that professors B and C, experts of a certain university who took part in the appointments process of a university lecturer, as…

2017

Researcher A had made an RCR notification to the rector of university of applied sciences X. A alleged that B, a lecturer in technology at…

2016

A, a doctor in humanities, suspected that B, a professor in the same field, was guilty of theft as well as inappropriate hampering and delaying of…

2016

A, a professor working as the lead researcher in a research project in technology…

2016

A university was notified of an alleged plagiarism concerning a Master’s thesis in social sciences accepted at the university. In the preliminary…

2016

A, a medical researcher, had presented to his/her former university employer an allegation that B, a professor in the same field, and C, a junior…

2016

A, a researcher, had made an RCR notification to the rector of a university of applied sciences. A alleged that B, a lecturer in technology in…

2016

A, a former doctoral student of a university presented the allegation that B, a researcher who had worked with him/her on a research project in…

2016

According to the RCR notification, the participants of a technology project in a university were alleged to be guilty of disregard for responsible…

2016

A researcher in pedagogics discovered text from his/her doctoral dissertation in a publication drawn up in cooperation between a university and a…

2015

In an RCR notification, professor A from a university claimed that professor Y and postgraduate student B from the same field, who had worked on a…

2015

Professor A and docent B suspected the international evaluation of a project led by A to have been biased, and that professor X, who acted as an…

2015

A, a postgraduate student in economics at a university, co-authored an article in Finnish with the leader of a research project, for inclusion in…