{"data":{"id":"us/10-cfr-733.3","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"10 CFR 733.3","heading":"Definitions.","body":"The following terms used in this part are defined as follows:\nContract is defined in 2 CFR 200.22.\nDOE means the U.S. Department of Energy (including the National Nuclear Security Administration).\nDOE Element means a major division of DOE, usually headed by a Presidential appointee, which has a delegation of authority to carry out activities by entering into contracts or financial assistance agreements.\nFabrication means making up data or results and recording or reporting them.\nFalsification means manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.\nFinancial assistance agreement means an agreement the primary purpose of which is to provide appropriated funds to stimulate an activity, including but not limited to, grants and cooperative agreements pursuant to 2 CFR part 200 as amended by 2 CFR part 910.\nFinding of research misconduct means a determination, based on a preponderance of the evidence, that research misconduct has occurred. Such a finding requires a conclusion that there has been a significant departure from accepted practices of the relevant research community and that it be knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly committed.\nPlagiarism means the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.\nResearch means all basic, applied, and demonstration research in all fields of science, engineering, and mathematics, such as research in economics, education, linguistics, medicine, psychology, social sciences, statistics, and research involving human subjects or animals.\nResearch misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results, but does not include honest error or differences of opinion.\nResearch record means the record of all data or results that embody the facts resulting from scientists' inquiries, including, but not limited to, research proposals, laboratory records, both physical and electronic, progress reports, abstracts, theses, oral presentations, internal reports, and journal articles","path":["Title 10—Energy","CHAPTER III—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY","PART 733—ALLEGATIONS OF RESEARCH MISCONDUCT"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-10.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:09Z","sha256":"73692814957b681ea1b73e11be16de199dd85886ffc9dd6cdaba511d85472a22","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/10-cfr-733.2","next":"us/10-cfr-733.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}