2020-05-20

Meeting with the academic community of the Lithuanian Sports University

On the 19th of May, the ombudswoman Loreta Tauginienė and the senior specialist of the Office Kamilė Kapočiūtė participated in a virtual meeting with the academic community of the Lithuanian Sports University (LSU). Some 60 members of LSU academic community participated in the meeting.

The ombudswoman presented them the concepts of research integrity and publication ethics, as well as manifestations of unethical research with the examples from national and international practice. The attention was drawn to the evaluation of authorship violations and consequences of violations of publication ethics.

Kamilė Kapočiūtė introduced the Guidelines for Recognition of Fictitious Scientific Events developed by the Office in 2019, explained how best to apply them and how to recognise fictitious scientific events. The participants of the meeting were interested in the frequency of fictitious scientific events in Lithuania, as well as in cooperation between the student and his / her thesis supervisor in publishing scientific articles, etc.