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has best practice: ==QRPs== According to research integrity experts who participated in a survey, '"`UNIQ--ref-00000008-QINU`"' there are a number of QRPs that occur frequently and have a high impact on science. In relation to study design, for instance, QRPs include presenting misleading information in a grant application or ignoring risks of unexpected findings or safety risks to study participants, workers or environment. Under data collection falls behaviour such as collecting more data when noticing that statistical significance is almost reached or keeping inadequate notes of the research process. in relation to reporting, examples of QRPs are hypothesizing after the results are known (HARKing), concealing results that contradict earlier findings, or not publishing a study with negative results. Moreover, selective citing to enhance your own findings or pleasing editors and colleagues is reported to often occur. QRPs that fall under collaboration are demanding or accepting authorship for which you do not qualify and reviewing your own papers. In addition, the misbehaviour that is estimated to occur the most and have a high impact on truth is insufficiently supervising junior coworkers. The misbehaviour that occurs the most and has the highest impact on trust is using published ideas of others without referencing. =='''Prevention'''== A way to counter QRPs could be to create awareness about research integrity issues and alter the current reward system. Instead of rewarding the number of publications, alternative aspects that could be rewarded include a researcher's commitment to pre-registration, data sharing and open science. '"`UNIQ--references-00000009-QINU`"'
has good practice and misconduct: Questionable research practice
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important because: QRPs are actions that concern trespassing "methodological principles that threathen the relevance, valdity, trustworthiness, or efficiency of the study at issue".'"`UNIQ--ref-00000005-QINU`"' QRPs can be divided over four main areas of the research process: the study design, data collection, reporting and collaboration. QRPs are estimated to occur far more frequently then serious misconduct, and therefore pose a threat to trust and truth in science. Under the current system QRPs are rewarded in the form of a higher number and more prestigious publications. Indeed, sloppy science as described above appears to have a strong 'fitness to survive'. '"`UNIQ--ref-00000006-QINU`"' '"`UNIQ--references-00000007-QINU`"'
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is about: Research misbehaviors, or questionable research practices (QRPs), are a threat to research integrity and to the validity of science. While research misconduct, in particular fabrication, falsification and plagiarism have a high impact on science, they rarely occur. Research misbehaviours, however, are estimated to occur frequently. While conceivibly having a lower impact on individual cases, the aggregated impact is estimated to be much higher. '"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-00000001-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-00000002-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-00000003-QINU`"' '"`UNIQ--references-00000004-QINU`"'
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Perverse incentives
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Polarized research
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Predatory publishing
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Assessing the educational literature in the responsible conduct of research for core content.
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Case-based ethics instruction: the influence of contextual and individual factors in case content on ethical decision-making
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Handling of Scientific Dishonesty in the Nordic Countries: Early stages in the 1990's
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Institutional Pathology and the Death of a Mentally Ill Young Man
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Online Posts Damage a Researcher's Reputation
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Psychology of misbehavior (in Dutch)
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Questionable Research Practices in Analysis and Reporting
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Questionable Research Practices in Study Design
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Research Environments and Research Integrity: An Educational Scenario by the EnTIRE project
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Research misconduct
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Keeping inadequate notes of the research process
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Posing irrelevant research questions
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Research Integrity Advisors
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Falsification
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Research integrity training for PhD students
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