Full and complete lab notes are an essential component of good science. They facilitate the replication of work and the understanding of data. Good note taking practices should be stressed in scientific professional development and lamp orientation. Supervisors and senior researchers have a key role to play in the space.
We are massive fans of the work Elisabeth Bik does to detect and call out fraud in research and scientific writing. In this piece, Jonathan Berkheim discusses with her the mechanics of such fraudulent activity. Why do some researchers falsify, fabricate and plagiarise? How do they go about it and how do they get caught? This interesting piece dives into the issues. It is a useful read for anyone involved in an institution’s research misconduct processes.
This chapter uses material from an open access human research ethics e-course developed with the support of an Open Access
Dr Helen Kara, NCRM visiting fellow, in the first (of three) part of the ‘Research ethics: theory and practice’ NCRM
Abstract The science community generally believes that the violation of research integrity is rare. Built upon this belief, the scientific
Multiple retractions reflect poorly on the research practices of individuals and potentially their host institution when the retracted paper was written. They can also raise doubts about the standard of research integrity development for HDR students at the institution where individuals have studied for their PhD. Institutions must be cognisant of not only quality professional development being about research culture at the institution, it is also risk management to protect their reputation coming into the future.
Abstract Background We sought to examine the levels of awareness, preferences, experiences, and practices of researchers in the health and
Between December 2020 and November 2021, the Australian Academy of Science and publisher Springer Nature aimed to investigate perceptions of research
