 A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1984, Paquette has served on advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and has been a member of the editorial boards of publications such as the "Journal of Organic Chemistry", "Journal of the American Chemical Society", "Organic Syntheses", "Organic Reactions", and as the founding editor of the "Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS).In 1993, an Ohio State University investigation found that Paquette had plagiarized sections from an unfunded NIH grant application, for which he was a reviewer, and included the text in his own NIH grant application.The Office of Research Integrity agreed with the University investigation and "required institutional certification of proper attribution in any future grant proposals" from Paquette and "prohibited him from serving on Public Health Service Advisory Committees, Boards, or review groups" for ten years.