Misconduct and plagiarism related to the grant proposal

This scenario presents misconduct and plagiarism related to the grant proposal.

Supervisor B asked the PhD candidate A to draft a grant proposal for him. When A wrote the grant proposal, she plagiarized many contents of the "case samples" provided by the tutoring agency. After this grant proposal was submitted in the name of supervisor B, it was reviewed by the fund agency and determined to be plagiarism.

The original authors C, D, E and F, worked together as a research team, shared a similar literature review and methodology. They were involved in plagiarism from each other.

It focuses on misconduct and plagiarism regarding:

• Involve in plagiarism
• Submit the same or similar grant proposal three times
• Data management security
• Asking someone else to write for he/she is misconduct.
• Sell someone’s disapproved grant proposal for profits