The InterAcademy Council and IAP – the global network of science academies – have published ‘Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise’, the first product of their joint project on scientific integrity. The representative international organisations of the world’s national scientific academies, the InterAcademy Council and IAP hope that their new guidance will provide clarity […]
The European Research Council (ERC) has adopted a new Scientific Misconduct Strategy to safeguard research integrity in ERC-funded projects. In a press release, the ERC’s Scientific Council – its governing body – stated that the strategy aims ‘to detect and vigorously treat… any suspected breach of research integrity concerning an ERC applicant or project.’ It […]
The Call for Abstracts for the third World Conference on Research Integrity closes on 15 October 2012. Proposals are invited for presentations on empirical research on research integrity and analyses of related topics. The first two World Conferences, held in Lisbon and Singapore respectively, made invaluable contributions to the promotion of research integrity and brought […]
The Guardian explores in three articles the growing awareness of research misconduct and the need to do more to sustain the integrity of academic and medical research. Alok Jha discusses several cases of proven misconduct, the impact of questionable practices and what can be done to improve the integrity of research. His article includes the […]
This week, Times Higher Education discusses how making online research data properly open to scrutiny might help prevent research misconduct and explores problems with the process of peer review: Times Higher: Decent Exposure Times Higher: Peer pressure
The third World Conference on Research Integrity has announced three keynote speakers, including Professor Michael Farthing, Vice-Chair of UKRIO. The previous World Conferences on Research Integrity brought together professionals from across the globe to share experiences, lessons learned and best practice. They made invaluable contributions to the promotion of good research practice, not least the […]
There are some issues which crop up in requests for our advice time and time again. One of these is how open should institutions be when discussing the outcomes of investigations into allegations of research misconduct. What should they say when an enquiry finishes? What information should they give out about a proven allegation? What […]
This week’s Times Higher Education discusses whether UK higher education needs to fundamentally change its approach to cases of research misconduct and isues of research integrity. Times Higher Education -Faking It Times Higher Education – Leader: Clarity begins at home UKRIO agrees that there should be a more systematic and visible effort to promote integrity in […]
Nature reports on a reproducibility initiative which aims to speed up clinical research and reduce the chance of other researchers of basing their work on inaccurate results. It describes how publishers of scientific research are supporting this initiative, which will urge authors to get their findings replicated by independent laboratories. Replicated studies will earn benefits […]
Science Nordic reports that a German pharmaceutical company is threatening legal action against a Danish scientist who published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that was critical of one of its products. Science Nordic: Pharma giant threatens Danish scientist