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What are the major ethical issues in conducting research? is there a conflict between the research ethics and the nature of nursing? +
This study addresses crucial ethical issues in nursing and emphasizes potential conflicts that nurses have to deal with. These issues regard informed consent, beneficence-do not harm, respect for anonymity and confidentiality and respect for privacy. Authors highlight that due to lack of clarity in ethical standards, nurses must develop an awareness of these issues and an adequate framework to cope with them. +
This article emphasizes difficulties that editors face in pursuing cases of suspected research misconduct. The authors highlight the need for better training and guidance for editors as well as more cooperation from relevant institutions. +
This blog post describes circumstances that led to the retraction of a paper about gender dysphoria. +
This is a factual case. +
The manuscript published on Nature is on researcher 'self-reflection on the retraction of one of his paper. +
Linked to the case of Olivier Voinnet, the blog presents an example of publishers' response to authors whose past papers have been retracted or have had corrections issued on them. +
This opinion piece discusses the function of retraction notices, and addresses the criticisms that are often made of them - that they are opaque and uninformative. The article proposes five criteria for disclosing information in retraction notices to make them better. +
An archaeologist is uncertain whether it is ethical to drink with or purchase alcohol for Native Americans of the Southwest, given that many reservations are dry and the historical issues caused to native populations by alcohol. +
This factual case describes various instances of sociological research in which the research subjects are deceived. The deceit comes in many forms, from not telling the participants that they are taking part in research to the researcher disguising him or herself to collect data. Some researchers argue that the deceit is justified by the fact that it leads to better research, whilst others argue that it harms the participant's interest and obscures the data. +
A student applies inappropriate procedures in research with rats because of a lack of training. +
A brief retrospective look at some past fraud investigations, showing that, whether researchers are found to be guilty or innocent, the wounds are slow to heal. The afterlife of Jon Sudbo, Andres Pape Moller, Jan Hendrik Schön, Thereza Imanishi-Kari, Woo Suk Hwang, Luk Van Parisj, Bengü Sezen, Shinichi Fujimura. +
A student who has been working in a lab discovers the head of the lab is engaging in serious misconduct. The student thinks she has solid evidence to demonstrate the misconduct. However, she hopes to obtain a PhD position in this lab. +
This is a factual case. +
A federal agency threatened to withhold a researcher's salary unless he turned over his notes he had written on the proposed topographic changes in an indigenous area in the far north of America. The researcher's report noted that the changes would radically change the culture of the area and this change could not be mitigated. The federal agency funding him wanted him to turn over the notes so they could get a second opinion. +
There are very few (published) accounts of editorial misconduct, and those that do exist are almost exclusively focused on medicine-related areas. In the present article we detail a case of editorial misconduct in a rather underexplored domain, the social sciences. This case demonstrates that although legal systems provide different instruments of protection to avoid, compensate for, and punish misconduct on the part of journal editors, the social and economic power unbalance between authors and publishers suggests the importance of alternative solutions before or instead of bringing a lawsuit to court. It puts forward strong arguments in favour of the need for effective regulatory bodies so as to achieve and maintain a culture of research integrity by ''all'' involved in the process. +
This is about the suicide of Jason Altom, a Harvard graduate studen that, was widely reported in the media. With this tragic background, the case discusses the role of mentorship in research settings. A different monitoring system for the quality of graduate students' supervision is suggested, where anonymous evaluation is enabled.. +
A researcher wants to test an intervention to prevent child abuse among pregnant women in drug treatment programs but feels that revealing the true aim of the intervention may upset women already in difficult life circumstances (and limit enrollment). She asks her institution’s IRB for permission to tell potential participants that the study is a parenting skills development rather than child abuse prevention program. +
An anthropologist witnessed a murder, took notes, but denied to the police that she had any knowledge of the case (in line with the actions of the community she studied). +
Working with Research Integrity - Guidance for Research Performing Organisations: The Bonn PRINTEGER Statement +
This document presents the Bonn PRINTEGER Consensus Statement: Working with Research Integrity - Guidance for research performing organisations. The aim of the statement is to complement existing instruments by focusing specifically on institutional responsibilities for strengthening integrity. It takes into account the daily challenges and organisational contexts of most researchers. The statement intends to make research integrity challenges recognisable from the work-floor perspective, providing concrete advice on organisational measures to strengthen integrity. +
The WorldFAIR Project is a Horizon Europe initiative led by CODATA and the Research Data Alliance, dedicated to advancing the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) across disciplines and globally. It works through 11 case studies spanning fields like chemistry, nanomaterials, health, geochemistry, biodiversity, urban health, disaster risk, and cultural heritage to develop ''FAIR Implementation Profiles'' (FIPs) tailored to each domain. The project also defines a Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) to support seamless, machine-actionable data exchange, and produces policy recommendations and assessment guidelines to benchmark FAIRness in different research communities. +
