Recently, many colleges and universities across the country put forward the idea of "thoroughly cleaning up the stock of papers on academic misconduct". The Paper noted that the General Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology had previously issued the "Notice on Self-inspection of Academic Misconduct in Papers and Cleaning Up the Phenomenon of Nomination" on April 27th.

　　According to the website of the Institute of Science and Technology Development of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture on June 7, according to the requirements and unified arrangements of the Notice of Beijing Municipal Education Commission on Carrying out the Self-inspection of Academic Misconduct and the Cleaning of Nominal Phenomenon of Papers, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture conducted a one-month (June 2023) self-inspection and cleaning, requiring the implementation of the main responsibility of secondary units, thoroughly cleaning up the stock of academic misconduct papers and curbing the increase.

　　Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture proposed that the self-inspection and clean-up targets of all secondary units are academic papers published by teachers and students with Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture as the signature unit since January 1, 2018.

　　According to the website of the School of Humanities of Hangzhou Normal University on June 6, the Scientific Research Office of Hangzhou Normal University issued a notice on May 22, saying: According to the work arrangement and requirements of the Notice of Zhejiang Science and Technology Department and Zhejiang Education Department on Self-examination of Academic Misconduct and Cleaning Up the Phenomenon of Nominal Papers, the school is now carrying out self-examination and cleaning up the phenomenon of academic misconduct. The object of self-examination and clean-up is: academic papers published by teachers and students with Hangzhou Normal University as the signature unit since January 1, 2018, especially papers that have been included in personnel assessment or received scientific research performance awards.

　　The Research Office of Hangzhou Normal University said that it is necessary to implement the main responsibilities of all secondary units, thoroughly clean up the stock of papers on academic misconduct, and curb the increase.

　　According to the website of the Science and Technology Department of Chengdu University of Information Science and Technology on June 2nd, and in accordance with the requirements of the Notice of Sichuan Provincial Department of Education of Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology on Self-examination of Academic Misconduct in Papers and Cleaning Up the Phenomenon of Nomination, Chengdu University of Information Science and Technology carried out self-examination of Academic Misconduct in Papers and cleaning up the phenomenon of Nomination. The time range of self-inspection and cleaning is "since January 1, 2018". The goal is to compact the management rights and responsibilities of colleges (centers, departments) and relevant departments, thoroughly clean up the stock of academic misconduct papers, and resolutely curb incremental risks.

　　In addition, Zhejiang Ningbo University, Sichuan Xihua Normal University, Guizhou Zunyi Medical University, etc. also recently proposed in the notice that the stock of academic misconduct papers should be thoroughly cleaned up to curb the increase. In addition, universities such as Liaoning University and Southern Medical University have recently proposed to "further reduce the stock of academic misconduct papers and focus on curbing the increase" and "reduce the stock of academic misconduct papers and focus on curbing the increase".

　　The Paper noted that the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology on Self-examination of Academic Misconduct in Papers and Cleaning Up the Phenomenon of Nomination, recently forwarded by the Science and Technology Bureau of Yuncheng City and the Science and Technology Department of Guangdong Institute of Technology, showed that the notice was issued by the General Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology on April 27th.

　　In the notice, the General Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology stated that, in accordance with the relevant work arrangements, on the basis of the special work of self-examination and nominal cleaning of papers in subordinate universities and central-level scientific and technological institutions, it was decided to carry out self-examination and nominal cleaning of papers in local scientific research institutes and universities for a period of three months. Through self-examination and clean-up, the main responsibility of the unit will be compacted, the stock of academic misconduct papers will be further reduced, efforts will be made to curb the increase, and researchers will be guided to strengthen the awareness of scientific research integrity, adhere to the bottom line of scientific research integrity, and promote the formation of a good scientific research ecology.

　　The General Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology proposed that researchers from local scientific research institutes, universities and other units should be organized to carry out self-examination on academic misconduct and nominal clean-up of academic papers published since January 1, 2018. Papers that have been investigated may not be included in the scope. The papers that meet the scope of self-examination and clean-up should be self-examined one by one, with emphasis on the following aspects: (1) Whether there is plagiarism, plagiarism and repeated publication; (2) Whether the paper has forged the correspondent (e-mail, unit), forged or manipulated peer review, etc.; (3) Whether the pictures and data of the paper are forged, fabricated or tampered with, and whether one picture is multi-purpose and selectively used; (4) Whether the signed author really participates in relevant research and thesis writing, and whether there is any situation of buying and selling, writing on behalf of others, or submitting papers on behalf of others; (5) Whether the experimental research data is obtained by the author’s real research, and whether there is any situation of purchasing experimental research data without real research; (6) Whether the author of the paper’s signature has made no substantial academic contribution to the paper, there is a nominal phenomenon.

　　The general office of the Ministry of Science and Technology said that if problems are found in self-examination, researchers should report to their own units in time and take remedial measures such as corrigendum and draft withdrawal. In accordance with the provisions of Article 34 of the Rules for the Investigation and Handling of Dishonesty in Scientific Research, the circumstances that are dealt with lightly may be dealt with lightly according to the regulations; Those who conceal or fail to report or make false reports shall be severely dealt with in accordance with Article 35 of the Rules for the Investigation and Handling of Dishonesty in Scientific Research and publicly notified.