The DFG Code contains a total of 19 guidelines to ensure good scientific practice in the following areas:
Principles
- Guideline 1: Commitment to the general principles
- Guideline 2: Professional ethics
- Guideline 3: Organizational responsibility of the management of scientific institutions
- Guideline 4: Responsibility of the management of work units
- Guideline 5: Performance dimensions and evaluation criteria
- Guideline 6: Ombudspersons
Research process
- Guideline 7: Cross-phase quality assurance
- Guideline 8: Actors, responsibilities and roles
- Guideline 9: Research design
- Guideline 10: Legal and ethical framework conditions, rights of use
- Guideline 11: Methods and standards
- Guideline 12: Documentation
- Guideline 13: Establishing public access to research results
- Guideline 14: Authorship
- Guideline 15: Publication medium
- Guideline 16: Confidentiality and neutrality in assessments and consultations
- Guideline 17: Archiving
Non-compliance with good scientific practice, procedures
- Guideline 18: Whistleblowers and persons affected by allegations
- Guideline 19: Procedure in cases of suspected scientific misconduct
The current version of the Code was published on January 27, 2025.
