Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment

by Mayer, Tony; Steneck, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9789814340977
• ISBN10: 9814340979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-28
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Globalisation has become a rewarding but challenging fact of life for scientific and scholarly researchers. Intellectually, they work with shared understandings of their areas of research and research methods. Professionally, responsibility and best practices are subject to many different rules and standards that vary across disciplines, countries, and cultures. They know how to measure and study the objects of their research but are often less sure of what constitutes the responsible practice of research or research integrity.The World Conferences on Research Integrity provide a forum for an international group of researchers, research administrators from funding agencies and similar bodies, research organisations performing research, universities and policy makers to discuss and make recommendations on ways to improve, harmonise, publicise, and make operationally effective international policies for the responsible conduct of research. The second such conference, held in Singapore in July 2010, focused on challenges and responses. Where is integrity in research today most significantly challenged and what is being done to address these challenges? This volume brings together a selection of presentations and key guidelines and statements emerging from the Conference.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Welcomes	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
Opening Address by the Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defence	p. xxiii
Welcome by the President of Nanyang Technological University	p. xxix
Welcome by the Chairman of A* STAR	p. xxxiii
Welcome by the Vice President for Research Strategy, National University of Singapore	p. xxxvii
Welcome by the President of Singapore Management University	p. xxxix
Research Integrity Structures	p. 1
Developing Research Integrity Structures: Nationally and Internationally	p. 7
Stakeholder Leadership in Addressing Research Integrity Challenges	p. 17
Research Integrity Challenges ù A Singapore Perspective	p. 21
European Science Foundation and Research. Integrity	p. 25
France: How to Improve a Decentralized, Ambiguous National System	p. 33
Research Integrity in the Canadian Context	p. 37
Research Integrity in New Zealand	p. 41
Challenges Encountered by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences When Introducing Concepts for Promoting Scientific Integrity	p. 45
The Integrity of Researchers in Japan: Will Enforcement Replace Responsibility?	p. 49
National, Institutional and International Approaches to Research Integrity: An Australian Perspective	p. 55
Finland: How to Revise National Research Integrity Guidelines in the Changing International Landscape?	p. 63
Acting After Learning in Europe	p. 67
Views on Research Integrity in the Commonwealth of Independent States	p. 71
Research Misconduct	p. 75
The Black, the White and the Grey Areas: Towards an International and Interdisciplinary Definition of Scientific Misconduct	p. 79
Keynote Address: Promoting Integrity in Research	p. 91
Does Peer Review Work as a Self-Policing Mechanism in Preventing Misconduct: A Case Study of a Serial Plagiarist	p. 97
Scientific Falsifications in and out of Science	p. 115
The Need for Greater Attention Regarding Research Integrity in Mexico	p. 123
Codes of Conduct	p. 129
A Framework for Examining Codes of Conduct on Research Integrity	p. 133
Dilemmas for Ethical Guidelines for the Sciences	p. 149
Levels of Responsibility	p. 157
The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity	p. 161
A Report from the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice	p. 169
Lessons from 17 Years With National Guidelines for Research Ethics in Norway	p. 173
Society for Scientific Values: A Movement to Promote Ethics in the Conduct of Science	p. 177
How Many Codes of Conduct do we Need? The Chinese Experience	p. 181
The Past, Present and Future of one University's Code of Research Ethics in New Zealand	p. 185
The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research ù Challenges and Responses	p. 187
Institutional and National Approaches to Fostering Responsible Research	p. 191
Why, What, and How we Should be Teaching about Research Integrity	p. 195
Establishing an Institutional Culture of Research Integrity: Key Challenges & Successful Solutions	p. 213
A Curriculum for RCR Training in Germany	p. 217
Teaching and Training Research Ethics	p. 221
Developing Policies for RCR Training in Brazilian Graduate Programs: Current Challenges	p. 225
Individual Approaches to Fostering Integrity in Research	p. 233
Online RCR Training and the Use of Case Study Videos	p. 237
Use of Case Studies in Training Students and Practitioners in Responsible Research Practice	p. 241
Réflexives Integrated Training Program for PhD Students and Their Supervisors: Quality, Integrity and Responsible Conduct of Research	p. 245
How to Teach Research Integrity Without the Notion: Attempts in Japan	p. 251
Creating the CITI-Japan Program for Web-Based Training: Where Ethics, Law and Science Experts Meet	p. 255
Promoting Best Practices for Scientists and Postdoctoral Fellows	p. 263
Statens Serum Institute's Course on Good Scientific Practice: Why? How? What? Does it Work? What is Needed?	p. 267
Responsible Conduct of Research Workshops at the Australian National University	p. 269
Scientific Integrity: The Perspective from Imperial College London	p. 271
Workshop #3 Report: International Responsible Conduct of Research Education	p. 277
Integrity Issues for Authors and Editors	p. 285
Challenges for Editors as Guardians of the Research Record	p. 289
Promoting Integrity in Research Reporting: Developing Universal Standards and Promoting Best Practice among Journals	p. 291
The Equator Network: A Global Initiative to Improve Reporting of Health Research Studies	p. 295
Challenges and Responses in Mathematical Research Publishing	p. 301
Plagiarism Understanding and Management in Russia and Central Europe	p. 305
Background to Responsible Research Publication Position Statements	p. 307
Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Authors	p. 311
Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Editors	p. 319
Integrity in the News, Climate Change and Dual-Use Technology	p. 331
Turning up the Heat on Research Integrity: Lessons from "Climategate"	p. 337
Climategate: A Journalist's Perspective	p. 341
	p. 347
Integrity in Research with Dual-Use Potential	p. 357
Governance Options for Dual-Use Research	p. 361
The Role of Leadership and Culture within the Laboratory	p. 365
Dual-Use Research, Codes of Conduct, and the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity	p. 369
Research with Dual-Use Potential in RCR Education: Is there a Role for Codes?	p. 375
Appendix: Singapore Statement on Research Integrity	p. 381
List of Contributors	p. 385
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