LEES Policy for Research Collaborations

July 19, 2007

LEES laboratory members at the University of Toledo consider project collaboration and co-authorship to be a professional agreement that includes shared responsibility and credit for the scientific integrity of a research project or published manuscript.  LEES laboratory members do not knowingly sanction, participate, or fund any research study or manuscript in which any author or researcher knowingly plagiarizes, falsifies or fabricates data, concepts or text.

LEES laboratory members also believe that collaborative authorship is defined by the cooperative development of a manuscript, where each participating author significantly contributes to study activities or manuscript production. The LEES lab group looks forward to active exchanges with future collaborators and encourages open dialogue at an early stage and throughout the development of a manuscript.