RPN Live: Winning the war against research misconduct

In the words of Sarah Richardson, editor-in-chief of Research Professional News, speaking at an RPN Live webinar on research integrity, there is “growing talk of a reproducibility crisis in research and growing awareness that systemic issues within research environments—pressure to publish, insecure environments, insufficient institutional oversight, to name just a few—are jeopardising trust in the reliability of research”.

A serious situation, but it’s not all doom and gloom. A fightback is underway, as the six panellists at the webinar laid out. Here are the four main themes that developed during the discussion.

Misconduct is a serious problem

The opening presentation by Elisabeth Bik, a science integrity consultant, was a bracing demonstration of how widespread misconduct is.