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Code of Conduct for Research

The definition of authorship is elaborated in section 4 of the Code of Conduct for Research which is available from the Graduate Centre or at: http://www.research.murdoch.edu.au/gdelines/policies/codeconres.html#link4

The Code of Conduct includes a requirement that ‘one author (by agreement among the authors) should formally accept overall responsibility for the entire publication, including the ‘Statement of Authorship and Location of Data form’.  All authors are required to sign this ‘Statement’.

The Code of Conduct defines ‘misconduct in research’.   This includes ‘misleading ascription of authorship - including the listing of authors without their permission, attributing work to others who have not in fact contributed to the research, and the lack of appropriate acknowledgment of work primarily produced by a research student/trainee or associate’.  Procedures for dealing with allegations of ‘misconduct in research’ are specified in the Code of Conduct.

The Code of Conduct for Research is available from the Graduate Centre or at: http://www.research.murdoch.edu.au/gdelines/policies/codeconres.html

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