Report of research misconduct
2025-12-18
A report of research misconduct was received by the university in November 2025. After an internal investigation, Vice-Chancellor Mats Tinnsten has decided that the case is of such a nature that it should be investigated by the Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct. The researcher is not suspected of cheating or plagiarism but may have enabled the publication of fabricated research.
“This is extremely serious. We take research ethics very seriously and have acted in accordance with all applicable regulations. It is important that we at the university continue to work actively with research ethics principles and spread awareness of good research practice at the university,” said Anna Cregård, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and the senior administrator involved in this matter.
Earlier this year, the researcher was investigated internally for breaches of good scientific practice when five scientific articles linked to the researcher were retracted. The publisher Taylor & Francis is also currently investigating the publication of falsified articles, the researcher's claim of authorship of other articles, and the researcher's refusal to comply with the publisher's request to retract certain articles.
The researcher in question has chosen to end their employment at the university at their own request and will formally leave on 28 February 2026.
An article on the matter will also be published on the university's external website today.
Facts: The National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct (Npof for its Swedish name, Nämnden för prövning av oredlighet i forskning) was established on 1 January 2020 as a government agency under the Ministry of Education and Research. Npof's task is to assess whether research misconduct has taken place in accordance with the Act on Responsibility for Good Research Practice and the Examination of Research Misconduct (2019:504).
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Read also the employee news article "Good research practice – a matter of course?"