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Ethical behavior in research and licensed research integrity tools
Research Integrity Resources
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Research at Northwestern University
Offfice of Research
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The Office for Research advances the impact and eminence of Northwestern's research programs.
Research Integrity
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Fosters research integrity and promotes responsible conduct of research through coordination of training & facilitation of alleged research misconduct reviews.
Feinberg Research
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Feinberg Research offers a wide range of resources, facilities and services to support your research and administration needs, from basic science to clinical research.
Office for Sponsored Research
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Northwestern Sponsored Research is to steward, promote, and advocate Northwestern’s research enterprise by providing responsive, compliant, comprehensive administration of the University’s sponsored research and sponsored activity.
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Resources for Good Research Practices - Research Integrity
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Researcher Resources - Office for Research
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Research Training - Office for Research
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Research Policy & Guidance - Office for Research
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Ethical Behavior in Research
This guide is meant to provide a general overview ethical behavior in research, including resources at Northwestern University and within the Feinberg School of Medicine. This guide also includes information regarding specific resources licensed by FSM in support of research integrity.
Ethical behavior in research is not only limited to the experimental process as it also applies to publications, scholarly communication and other aspects of research collection and data. Other research ethical issues to consider include:
Authorship
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Responsible authorship and contributorship should be practiced. See the International Committee of Journal Editors Guidelines on authorship for ethical guidelines on inclusion/exclusion of "authors".
Openness
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Share data, research, methods, and results to the rest of the scientific community and the public. Be open to criticism, suggestions, recommendations, and advice.
Data Management
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Includes the reliable and respectful collection and manipulation of data, the ethical handling and maintaining of collected data, data preservation and security (HIPPA Privacy ruling), and the sharing of data and research to the scientific community.
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Data Management & Sharing
Fabrication or Falsification
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As defined by the Northwestern University Office for Research: "Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them." and "Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record." (Research Misconduct, n.d.)
Objectivity in Research
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There is a conflict in the objectivity of research when one's research proposal conflicts with personal (or that of one's family) financial gain. Any potential conflict of interest must be declared or stated in grant proposals or in the publication of research.
Adapted from
the Tulane University
Ethical Considerations: Research Integrity
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Resnik, D. B. (2011).
What is ethics in research and why is it important
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Retraction Tracking
Retraction Watch
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A reliable website which writes about recent retractions in the scholarly literature. Many articles are retracted from Journals because the authors have displayed evidence of plagiarism.
PubMed - Search by Retraction
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You can use the Publication Type filter to refine by "Retracted publication".
Web of Science - Search by Corrected Articles
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In the Advanced search choose "Correction" as a document and do a search for Retraction as a Topic. (TS=(retraction)) AND DOCUMENT TYPES: (Correction)
Ethics Policies and Processes
NIH Policy for Handling Research Misconduct Allegations
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The many consequences if an individual involved in NIH funded research is found to have committed research misconduct.
COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics
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"COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct"
NSF Office of Inspector General
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