DFG reprimands researcher over plagiarism in funding bid

Investigations committee rejects claim that partner was at fault

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has reprimanded a researcher and excluded him from submitting applications for two years due to scientific misconduct.

The researcher was accused of taking passages from two scientific articles and an internet source almost word-for-word in a funding application to an international cooperation programme, without making this sufficiently clear, the DFG said on 5 July.