The organization responsible for allocating basic research funding in China has issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers for violations ranging from breach of confidentiality to image manipulation, plagiarism, and buying and selling authorship.

Penalties for the researchers ranged from bans on applying for funding or serving as a reviewer, to having research funding revoked – which includes having to return funds already dispersed. In most cases, the restrictions on applying for funding were for three to seven years.

One of the investigations also called out a university: Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, which "has problems with negligence in managing scientific research misconduct committed by its personnel and failing to perform its duties in the process of investigating and handling scientific research misconduct", a translation of the investigation report states.

Source  https://retractionwatch.com/2025/04/15/national-natural-science-foundation-china-misconduct-investigations/

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