Legal analysis: The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Academy of Social Sciences are respectively responsible for coordinating the investigation and handling of scientific research integrity cases in the fields of natural science and philosophy and social science. For major scientific research integrity cases, joint investigations can be conducted or different departments (units) can be coordinated to carry out investigations respectively. In the case of scientific research integrity, if the person under investigation is a natural person, the unit to which he belongs shall be responsible for the investigation. The relevant units shall cooperate with the investigation and handling of the acts of dishonesty in scientific research during the work or study in other units. If the person under investigation is the main person in charge of the unit or the person under investigation is a legal entity, the higher authorities shall be responsible for the investigation. If there is no superior competent department, the provincial administrative department of science and technology or the unit responsible for the integrity construction of philosophy and social science research shall be responsible for organizing the investigation.

Legal basis: Notice of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the Supreme People's Court on Printing and Distributing the Rules for the Investigation and Handling of Scientific Research Integrity Cases (Trial).

Article 2 The term "cases of scientific research integrity" as mentioned in these Rules refers to cases in which acts suspected of violating the requirements of scientific research integrity are investigated and dealt with according to reports or other relevant clues.

The act of violating the requirements of scientific research integrity mentioned in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as scientific research dishonesty) refers to the act of violating the scientific research code of conduct and norms in scientific research and related activities, including:

(a) plagiarism, misappropriation of other people's research results or project applications;

(two) fabricating the research process, forging or tampering with research data, charts, conclusions, test reports or user reports;

(three) buying and selling, writing papers or project applications, fictional peer review experts and opinions;

(4) Obtaining the approval of scientific research activities and obtaining scientific and technological projects (special projects, funds, etc.) by fraudulent means such as deliberately providing false information, or by improper means such as bribery and exchange of interests. ), research funds, awards, honors, titles, etc.

(5) Violating scientific research ethics;

(six) illegal awards, patents and other research results and published papers;

(seven) other acts of dishonesty in scientific research.

Article 3 No unit or individual may obstruct or interfere with the investigation and handling of scientific research integrity cases, and may not shirk or cover up.

Article 4 The investigated persons and witnesses in scientific research integrity cases shall actively cooperate with the investigation, truthfully explain the problems and provide relevant evidence, and shall not conceal or destroy the evidence materials.