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| Type | What is this about? | Why is this important? | For whom is this important? | Link | |
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| Academic Integrity Tutorial with Quiz | Education | 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. | Research integrity issues have to be dealt with at an early stage of a researchers career. This tutorial is a useful and fun way to address this topic. | Early career researchers PhD Students | https://www.umuc.edu/current-students/learning-resources/academic-integrity/tutorial/interactive.html |
| Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition | Education | 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. | Researchers | https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ees.2016.0223 | |
| Academic and research misconduct in the PhD: Issues for students and supervisors | Cases | 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). | These are thought provoking examples of roles and responsibilities in the PhD student-supervisor relationship. They are real examples that can be used for reflection for supervisors and students alike, as well as for teaching purposes. | PhD Students Supervisors | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691707000664 |
| Academic integrity at MIT, a handbook for students | Education | 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-00000219-QINU`"'. '"`UNIQ--references-0000021A-QINU`"' | All stakeholders in research Students | https://integrity.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/AcademicIntegrityHandbook2018-color.pdf | |
| Academic integrity checklist | Education | 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-00000218-QINU`"'. | All stakeholders in research Students | https://students.uu.nl/sites/default/files/uu-academicintegrity.pdf | |
| Academic medical centers and medical research: the challenges ahead | Education | 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. | Researchers Students | https://iims.uthscsa.edu/sites/iims/files/MDT-Challenges-2-Other.pdf | |
| Academic research record-keeping: best practices for individuals, group leaders, and institutions | Education | 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. | Researchers | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943904/ | |
| Accuracy of Credentials and Competence in Public Communications | Cases | 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. | Researchers Early career researchers General public | https://www.asanet.org/teaching-learning/faculty/teaching-ethics-throughout-curriculum/case-30-accuracy-credentials-and-competence-public-communications | |
| Act on the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy | Guidelines | 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. | Academic institutions Research institutions Research Integrity Officers Researchers Policy makers | https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2017/384 | |
| Acting with Research Integrity | Interactive | Learn about the different ways in which a researcher can act with (and without) integrity! | |||
| Administrators and Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) | Education | 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. | Research administrators have an important role in promoting research integrity and bringing solutions to problems and conflicts. For accomplishing this work, administrators need to have a set of skills and knowledge which are presented in this module. | Administrators | https://ori.hhs.gov/education/products/rcradmin/index.html |
| Advisory Report of the Committee on Exploration of the Revision of the Dutch Code of Conduct | Guidelines | 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. | All stakeholders in research | https://www.nwo.nl/sites/nwo/files/documents/Adviesrapport%20commissie%20verkenning%20herziening%20gedragscode%20wetenschapsbeo....pdf | |
| Age-Old Conflicts | Cases | This is a fictional case on conflict of interest in biomedical research, including questions for discussion. | This is a useful resource for organizing a case discussion on conflicts of interest. | Researchers PhD Students Research integrity trainers Industry | https://ori.hhs.gov/case-one-age-old-conflicts |
| Agriculture researcher up to 15 retractions for fake peer review | Cases | This is the factual case of an agriculture research scientist whose several papers were retracted following accusation of fake reviews. | Whilst some publishers allow or encourage suggestions for reviewers, one needs to be careful at how they go about this often controversial practice. Journals in general have a transparent policy and set of guidelines on peer-reviewing. Some publishing bodies offer comprehensive sections on peer-reviewing | Reserchers Journal editors Journal publishers | https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/09/agriculture-researcher-up-to-15-retractions-for-fake-peer-review/ |
| Alliance of German Science Organisations' Principles for the Handling of Research Data | Guidelines | Besides the German National Research Foundation (DFG), other prominent research organizations such as the Alliance of German Science Organisations have also created codes and guidelines that deal with specific topics. This document addresses the importance of good data management practices and the principles therein. | Researchers Research institutions Research Integrity Officers All stakeholders in research | https://www.mpg.de/230783/principles_research_data_2010.pdf | |
| An author realized a paper had plagiarized his thesis. It took the journal four years to retract it. | Cases | This blog post describes a case where the bachelor's thesis of a Hungarian mathematics student is plagiarised and published in Scientific Reports — a Springer Nature title. | This case demonstrates that even famous journals might publish plagiarised material. It also shows that sometimes it might take years before a flawed article is retracted. | Researchers | https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/20/an-author-realized-a-paper-had-plagiarized-his-thesis-it-took-the-journal-four-years-to-retract-it/ |
| An empirical research study of the efficacy of two plagiarism-detection applications | Education | This article describes a study of the two most popular plagiarism-detection software platforms - Turnitin and SafeAssign and reviews current literature focusing plagiarism-detection efficacy. The study results show that Turnitin had the highest success at plagiarism detection with an 82.4 percent detection rate. | Researchers | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19322900903051011 | |
| An innovation in teaching ethics to medical students | Education | This article presents a model of medical ethics teaching at undergraduate level. This model allows students to discuss ethical problems in small groups. | Researchers Undergraduate trainers | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb02435.x | |
| An issue with insufficient data in the survey-resulting in a non-representative sample | Scenarios | This is the hypothetical scenario about the research process which was poorly planned. | Careful research planning helps to eliminate potential problems and increases the validity of the findings. | All stakeholders in research Bachelor students Doctoral students | https://zenodo.org/record/6105012 |
| An issue with insufficient data in the survey-resulting in a non-representative sample | Cases | Case describing poorly planned research study. | Doctoral students Bachelor students All stakeholders in research | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105012 |
