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Research integrity: emphasising our commitment (Editorial Papers: Stuart G. Nicholls | July 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on October 21, 2021
Keywords: Good practice, Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research integrity, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On July, 19 2021

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It is just over a year since the editors of this journal announced a broadening of the remit for submission. In doing so they made an explicit commitment to supporting work that examines research integrity issues. Furthering this commitment, we announce that Dr Edward Dove has joined Research Ethics as Associate Editor, with a focus on overseeing manuscripts that concern research integrity and/or misconduct matters.

The journal Research Ethics is congratulated for this excellent approach.  Clearly, institutions and programmes have clear roles to play in the governance of responsible practice, but we must recognise and celebrate good practice by researchers is the more constructive area to focus.  Resourcing reflective practice is a better long term and sustainable investment in good science than policing compliance and punishing breaches.

As detailed in the previous editorial, research integrity is a counterpart to research ethics. Where research ethics focuses more on research governance at the programme or study level, research integrity takes as its focus the researcher themselves, emphasising the values and virtues of those conducting research. The Canadian Council of Academies research integrity framework, for example, articulates values of honesty, fairness, trust, accountability and openness as being key to research integrity (Davenport et al., 2010). A concrete example of efforts to improve research integrity is seen through the push for Open Science and research reporting guidelines (Glasziou et al., 2014; Nicholls et al., 2016). The use of reporting guidelines to facilitate more transparent and complete publication practices promotes what Masic (2012) calls ‘intellectual honesty’; being straightforward in description of the research process. When reporting guidelines are combined with what O’Neill (2002) has described as the ‘audit agenda’ and the ‘openness agenda’, the completeness and transparency of reporting can be assessed through peer review more easily. This, in turn, promotes trust in research findings and reporting, and ultimately the research process.

Research integrity is at the core of several papers in this issue. For instance, in their study of ethical issues in internet research and research using online data, Stommel and de Rijk examine how ethical issues are reported, and in what ways, as well as the steps that authors take to protect the privacy of the sources of publicly available online data. They note that almost two thirds of the 132 articles they examined did not report ethical considerations yet commonly took steps to anonymise data. Notably, the discussion of ethical issues was highly variable with discrepancies between ethics principles in theory and in practice.

Nicholls, S.G. (2021) Research integrity: emphasising our commitment.  Research Ethics.  17(3)  pp265-266
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