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commenters. However, the material included in
acknowledgments should not clash with authorship
criteria.

11. Peer Review: Researchers are often asked to conduct
academic peer reviews and should provide the review
reports fairly, promptly and rigorously.
12. Research Misconduct: Academic institutions are known to
preserve the integrity of the research. This should be clearly
followed by the researcher, and any suspicious behaviorand
misconduct should be brought to the notice of the higher
authorities. Misconduct can include plagiarism,
falsification, and fabrication of data and all such
irresponsible practices that can bring a bad name to the
institution. Carelessness, slovenly done work and failure to
report conflicting data, use of misleading analytical
methods, should be thoroughly discouraged.
13. Plagiarism: As the term connotes, this involves ideas,
figures, codes, data and written material without a proper
acknowledgment or permission from the source.

Examples of plagiarism include:

(i) Lifting whole sentences or parts of sentences from a book
or thesis. This might also involve an internet source.
(ii) Previously published data from one's own records can
also be termed as self- plagiarism.
(iii) Including material from class-notes, downloaded material
in reports, presentations, and manuscripts also contribute
to plagiarism.

14. Cheating falls under various categories :

· Copying of assignments, homework, manuscripts during
exams or elsewhere, even prompting somebody else to
copy, is termed as cheating.

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