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Fabrication

Definition

Inventing data, results or entire cases that were never actually observed, collected or recorded.

Related terms

Falsification
Manipulating research materials, equipment or processes, or changing or omitting data, so that the record no longer accurately reflects what happened.
HARKing
Hypothesising after the results are known: presenting a hypothesis formed after seeing the data as though it had been predicted beforehand.
P-Hacking
Trying multiple analyses, subgroups or cutoffs on the same dataset until a statistically significant result appears, then reporting only that result.
Plagiarism
Presenting another person's words, ideas, data or findings as one's own without adequate credit, including copying one's own previously published work without...
Retraction
A formal withdrawal of a published article by a journal or its authors, issued when the findings can no longer be trusted...

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