P-hacking and HARKing are officially defined as research misconduct in academia
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Official definitions of research misconduct restrict the category to fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism, whereas practices like p-hacking and HARKing are treated separately as questionable research practices.
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# What Is Research Misconduct
Understand what research misconduct is and the importance of maintaining integrity in the scientific enterprise.
## Definition of Research Misconduct
As an agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH follows the Public Health Service (PHS) Policies on Research Misconduct 42 CFR 93. Research misconduct means fabricating, falsifying, and/or plagiarizing in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. It does not include honest error or differences of opinion.
The appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
Plagiarism excludes:
- authorship, credit, or collabor