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This online tutorial provides an overview of the importance of academic integrity. Participants will have the opportunity to learn strategies of how to identify plagiarism, conduct academic research, and properly cite citations. +
Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition +
This study addresses perverse incentives and decreased funding as potential causes for unethical behavior. The authors conclude that academia and federal agencies should better support research and emphasize altruistic and ethical outcomes, not the output. +
This case presents four factual anonymised cases of misconduct practices occurring in PhD supervision. More specifically: a) engagement with regulatory processes (i.e., the case of deviation from the initially ethics-approved data collection procedures without informing the relevant regulatory body); b) problems of knowledge or understanding transfer (i.e., a misunderstanding between student and supervisor in relation to intellectual property); c) culturally specific issues in the PhD study (i.e., the writing of disjoined, sometimes plagiarised, paragraphs in the thesis of a student whose first language was not English); d) academic theft (i.e., a student discovered her ex-supervisor had published work containing a literature review very similar to her own). +
This handbook outlines important information you will need to know about correctly acknowledging your sources when you write a report, research paper, critical essay, or position paper. It provides guidelines for collaboration on assignments and writing code. The handbook also provides information about what constitutes violations of academic integrity and the consequences of committing such violations'"`UNIQ--ref-000000F1-QINU`"'.
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This flyer contains a wealth of small pointers for writing a paper, conducting research and working with others. You’ll find advice to help you on your way, and handy hints'"`UNIQ--ref-00000102-QINU`"'. +
This study presents different challenges in medical research, such as the need to manage public expectations for new discoveries and maintain the public trust as well as consider the gap between research costs and funding sources. The authors examined these and other challenges and offered recommendations to medical schools and teaching hospitals on dealing with them. +
This article informs on the best research record-keeping practices developed as an adjunct to a research project on research ethics. These practices provide separate standards for individual researchers, research group leaders and departments or institutions and are offered as ethical and practical guidelines for researchers. +
Access to Scientific Information (2013), produced by the InterAcademy Panel, is an international framework promoting open access and open science globally. It establishes openness as the default, balanced by ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security, linking transparency to research quality, reproducibility, and equitable access to knowledge. The guidance encourages depositing publications in trusted repositories, using Creative Commons licensing, persistent identifiers, and FAIR-aligned data management plans. Responsibilities are shared across researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers, with clear instructions on planning for openness, rights retention, funding acknowledgment, and efficient use of infrastructure. Embargoes and exceptions for sensitive or commercial data must be transparently justified. The policy emphasizes equity, zero-embargo access, multilingual communication, and publisher-agnostic routes, while prioritizing the quality of openness metadata, reproducibility, and interoperability over output counts. By consolidating international principles into a coherent reference, it provides practical guidance for implementing transparent, inclusive, and accessible scientific communication worldwide. +
Carrie Mediln is a researcher who took a teaching position without completing her doctorate. She is routinely addressed by students as "Doctor" and is often introduced as "Doctor" Medlin during academic events and public speaking opportunities. She never clarifies that she did not receive a PhD degree. The case study asks whether Medlin has a responsibility to clarify her credentials. +
Achieving Equitable Research Partnerships by Facilitating Visas for short-term Researcher Mobility +
The Visa Brief, part of the PREPARED project and published in 2025, focuses on the ethical dimensions of short-term researcher mobility aimed at promoting equitable international research partnerships. Funded by the European Union and supported by UK and Swiss research bodies, the brief outlines the importance of facilitating ethical researcher mobility particularly in contexts where power imbalances, resource disparities, and differing institutional capacities exist. Although only the licence and authorship details were directly accessible, the title itself “Ethics Brief: Achieving Equitable Research Partnerships by Facilitating Short-Term Researcher Mobility” speaks volumes: it underscores the dual aim of ensuring mobility does not perpetuate inequities, and embedding fairness, mutual benefit, respect, and integrity into collaborative research practices, especially across the Global North–South divide. Drawing from PREPARED’s broader values-driven framework (modeled on the earlier TRUST Code built around fairness, respect, care, and honesty), the brief offers guidelines and ethical considerations for institutions, funders, and researchers on how to structure short-term exchanges in ways that advance equity and responsible research engagement. +
This law, that covers various aspects of research, innovation and integrity, establishes the framework for the Danish Research and Innovation Policy Council and the Danish Independent Research Foundation is are independent bodies that promote research. +
Learn about the different ways in which a researcher can act with (and without) integrity! +
ACTION (Participatory science toolkit against pollution) was a three-year Horizon 2020 project (2019–2022) that aimed to democratise citizen science around environmental pollution. It supported dozens of grassroots “pilot” projects via an accelerator, providing funding, mentoring, training, and infrastructure. It also developed an open-access toolkit full of methods, guidelines, and digital tools to help citizens and researchers co-create, run, and sustain inclusive science projects ensuring rigorous data, community engagement, and long-term impact. Furthermore, it built a framework to measure the social, environmental, economic, and policy impact of citizen science, promoting responsible research and innovation. +
<span lang="EN-US">Building on the Introduction to Environmental Justice module, this micromodule introduces four key principles: Leave no one behind, the Do No Significant Harm (DNSH), the Polluter Pays Principle, the Precautionary Principle and informed consent. The aim is to help participants integrate justice-oriented thinking into their research and innovation practices.</span> +
In this policy brief the Horizon EU-funded BEYOND project explores the broad socio-economic impacts of research misconduct to help shape strategies promoting research ethics and integrity, emphasizing shared responsibilities between individuals and institutions. '"`UNIQ--ref-00000005-QINU`"'
The document describes the impact of research misconduct on a socio-economic level, the factors that drive research misconduct, the stakeholders affected by it and provides a list of recommended actions. +
This is an online tutorial for administrative staff which contains modules in five instructional areas: conflict of interest, financial management, mentor-trainee responsibilities, collaborative research and data management. +
Although the Dutch Code of Ocnduct for Researchers has previously undergone minor revisions, there is a need for more substantial changes in view of recent developments in international codes. This document provides an analysis if the pre-existing guideline and suggests modifications. +
This is a fictional case on conflict of interest in biomedical research, including questions for discussion. +
This is the factual case of an agriculture research scientist whose several papers were retracted following accusation of fake reviews. +
The document 'The Regulation on Ethics in Research and Publishing', developed in 2012 in Albania, is a national guideline that addresses the principles of research integrity. Authored by Ministry of Higher Education and Science, and available in Albanian, it targets the research community in Albania. It provides clear expectations for responsible conduct in research and defines practices that safeguard honesty, transparency, and accountability. The text outlines responsibilities of both individual researchers and institutions. It identifies misconduct such as plagiarism, data falsification, fabrication, and unethical authorship, while also promoting good practices in publication, peer review, and collaborative research. It emphasizes effective data management, openness in reporting, and respect for colleagues, participants, and the wider community. Institutions are encouraged to create supportive environments through policies, training, and oversight mechanisms. The document serves as an official reference for aligning national research standards with international expectations, reinforcing ethical norms across research fields. +
