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ArticleScience and engineering ethics2019

Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity Consortium.

Alison Kretser, Delia Murphy, Stefano Bertuzzi, Todd Abraham, David B Allison, Kathryn J Boor, Johanna Dwyer, Andrea Grantham, Linda J Harris, Rachelle Hollander and 6 more

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Article in Science and engineering ethics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Alison KretserILSI North America, Washington, DC, USA. akretser@ilsi.org.ORCID 0000-0003-3449-0434
Delia MurphyILSI North America, Washington, DC, USA.
Stefano BertuzziAmerican Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, USA.
Todd AbrahamFormerly of the ILSI Global Board of Trustees, Washington, DC, USA.
David B AllisonIndiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Kathryn J BoorCornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Johanna DwyerTufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Andrea GranthamCanadian Nutrition Society, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Linda J HarrisInternational Association for Food Protection, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Rachelle HollanderFormerly of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The National Academy of Engineering, Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, Washington, DC, USA.
Chavonda Jacobs-YoungU.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA.
Sarah RovitoAssociation of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Washington, DC, USA.
Dorothea VafiadisAmerican Heart Association, Washington, DC, USA.
Catherine WotekiDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University (Formerly of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Research, Education, and Economics), Ames, IA, USA.
Jessica WyndhamAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, USA.
Rickey YadaUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A Scientific Integrity Consortium developed a set of recommended principles and best practices that can be used broadly across scientific disciplines as a mechanism for consensus on scientific integrity standards and to better equip scientists to operate in a rapidly changing research environment. The two principles that represent the umbrella under which scientific processes should operate are as follows: (1) Foster a culture of integrity in the scientific process. (2) Evidence-based policy interests may have legitimate roles to play in influencing aspects of the research process, but those roles should not interfere with scientific integrity. The nine best practices for instilling scientific integrity in the implementation of these two overarching principles are (1) Require universal training in robust scientific methods, in the use of appropriate experimental design and statistics, and in responsible research practices for scientists at all levels, with the training content regularly updated and presented by qualified scientists. (2) Strengthen scientific integrity oversight and processes throughout the research continuum with a focus on training in ethics and conduct. (3) Encourage reproducibility of research through transparency. (4) Strive to establish open science as the standard operating procedure throughout the scientific enterprise. (5) Develop and implement educational tools to teach communication skills that uphold scientific integrity. (6) Strive to identify ways to further strengthen the peer review process. (7) Encourage scientific journals to publish unanticipated findings that meet standards of quality and scientific integrity. (8) Seek harmonization and implementation among journals of rapid, consistent, and transparent processes for correction and/or retraction of published papers. (9) Design rigorous and comprehensive evaluation criteria that recognize and reward the highest standards of integrity in scientific research.

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ConsensusPractice Guidelines as TopicScientific MisconductAccess to InformationBiomedical ResearchCultureEducation, ProfessionalEngineeringEthics, ResearchHumansPeer ReviewPolicyPublishingReproducibility of ResultsResearchScienceCulture of integrityDetrimental research practicesOpen scienceQuality of researchResearch misconductResponsible conduct of research (RCR)

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