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Reporting Concerns About Research

Guidance on reporting concerns about research, plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, or other practices that seriously deviate from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research or other scholarly activities

Reporting Animal Concerns
Please see this page to report animal concerns
Reporting Concerns/Complaints about Human Participant Research
Please see this page report concerns about research involving human participants.

Reporting Research Misconduct
Please see this page to report concerns about:

fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism
other practices that seriously deviate from accepted practices within the scientific community for proposing, conducting, or reporting research or other scholarly activities
Learn more about research misconduct or about research misconduct investigations.

Ethics and Compliance Hotline: Concerns about research may also be directed to the Penn State Ethics and Compliance Hotline at 1-800-560-1637. For more information about the hotline, please visit the Office of Internal Audit Website.

Sites of Interest: National Science Foundation RCR FAQs; Office for Research Integrity Statement on Whistleblowers; National Science Foundation Policy for Research Misconduct; Responsibility of PHS Awardee and Applicant Institutions for Dealing with Research Misconduct; More >>