Research Ethics

Study Shows Lack of Female Authors in Academic Writing
Recognition
March 22, 2018

Study Shows Lack of Female Authors in Academic Writing

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Academy of Management Report on Measuring Scholarly Impact
News
March 13, 2018

Academy of Management Report on Measuring Scholarly Impact

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Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?
Communication
February 28, 2018

Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?

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Cry from Publons: Let’s End Reviewer Fraud
Communication
February 6, 2018

Cry from Publons: Let’s End Reviewer Fraud

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Is There a Need for Novelty in Science?

Is There a Need for Novelty in Science?

In a recent survey of over 1,500 scientists, more than 70 percent of them reported having been unable to reproduce other scientists’ findings at least once. Reproducibility of findings is a core foundation of science and realizing how difficult it is to assess novelty should give funding agencies and scientists pause. Progress in science depends on new discoveries and following unexplored paths – but solid, reproducible research requires an equal emphasis on the robustness of the work.

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Sexual Harassment and Universities

Sexual Harassment and Universities

Developing an effective response to sexual harassment in the academic industry — by no means a new phenomenon, notes Robert Dingwall — requires us to consider questions about institutional memory, occupational cultures, and organizational silos, rather than badly behaved individuals.

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Science’s Uphill Journey Out of Its Credibility Crisis

Science’s Uphill Journey Out of Its Credibility Crisis

The credibility of science is under siege, says Andrea Saltelli. On the one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.

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Ann Sloan Devlin on Timeless and Dynamic Research Design

Ann Sloan Devlin on Timeless and Dynamic Research Design

New technology has, and is, changing a lot of the mechanics of social and behavioral science research, but how much is the underlying enterprise itself changing as a result? This is a key question Ann Sloan Devlin, author of the newly released ‘The Research Experience: Planning, Conducting, and Reporting Research,’ addresses in this interview.

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Greece’s Honest Statistician Pays Price for Ethics

Greece’s Honest Statistician Pays Price for Ethics

In a case that outrages statisticians and partisans of good government, a Greek appeals court has convicted the former president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority of violation of duty for his actions in recalculating national statistics and showing that Greece’s financial situation was much more dire than had been advertised.

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Why We’re Encouraging Authors to Share Their Data with Reviewers

Why We’re Encouraging Authors to Share Their Data with Reviewers

The editor–in-chief of the ‘Psychological Science’ explains why the journal is now encouraging authors to share the data and materials behind their research with their reviewers.

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Unpacking the Ethics of Research on Sexual Assault

Unpacking the Ethics of Research on Sexual Assault

Why does it matter if research is ethical or not? And what steps could or should have been taken to ensure that issues such as those the Australian Human Rights Commission now faces — in a case related to well-intentioned research into sexual assault — are avoided?

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‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities

‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities

When researchers from countries where regulation is well developed choose to conduct ethically dubious research in countries where regulation is not as strict, it is known as “ethics dumping.” When it happened to Africa’s San people, they responded.

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