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Fabrication

Meaning in academic english & research, with examples

/ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃn/nounCommon term

In academic english & research, fabrication means: Inventing data, results or sources and reporting them as if they were real; one of the most serious forms of research misconduct.

In Turkish: uydurma, veri uydurma, sahtecilik

How it is used

Fabrication is usually listed with falsification (changing or selectively reporting real data) and plagiarism, often abbreviated FFP. Proven cases can lead to retraction and dismissal. The verb is fabricate: 'He fabricated interview data.'

Example sentences

  1. The investigation found clear evidence of data fabrication in four papers.

  2. Fabrication of participant responses is a serious breach of research ethics.

Common collocations

  • data fabrication
  • fabrication and falsification
  • allegations of fabrication
  • fabricated data
  • academic integrityThe commitment to honesty, fairness and responsibility in study and research, including citing sources, reporting data truthfully and doing your own work.
  • retractionThe formal withdrawal of a published article by a journal because its results are unreliable or because of misconduct or serious error.
  • plagiarismPresenting someone else's words, ideas or work as your own without properly acknowledging the source.
  • self-plagiarismReusing your own previously published text, data or ideas in a new work without citing the earlier publication.

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