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Better guidance is needed for editorial expressions of concern. 需要为编辑表达关切提供更好的指导。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2206021

Jaime A Teixeira da Silva, Maryna Nazarovets

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Rising quantitative productivity and shifting readership in academic publishing: Bibliometric insights from monkeypox literature. 学术出版中不断提高的定量生产率和读者群的变化：从猴痘文献中获得的文献计量学启示。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-06 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2199159

Nityanand Jain, Andrei Tanasov, Swarali Yatin Chodnekar, Akvilė Rakauskaitė, Edouard Lansiaux, Sandra Skuja, Aigars Reinis

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Harness editors' networks of communication to fight publication fraud. 利用编辑的交流网络打击出版欺诈。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2199931

Guangwei Hu

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Deploying an ethics needs assessment to inform a navigational tool for research compliance pathways at a provincial Canadian health authority. 在加拿大一个省级卫生机构开展伦理需求评估，为研究合规途径导航工具提供信息。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2233419

Elaine Fung, Elodie Portales-Casamar, Priyanka Kadam, Holly Longstaff

{"title":"Deploying an ethics needs assessment to inform a navigational tool for research compliance pathways at a provincial Canadian health authority.","authors":"Elaine Fung, Elodie Portales-Casamar, Priyanka Kadam, Holly Longstaff","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2233419","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2233419","url":null,"abstract":"Practitioners aim to improve healthcare systems and clinical care through a variety of activities as part of a learning healthcare system. Yet the distinction between projects requiring Research Ethics Board (REB) approval or not is becoming increasingly blurred, making it difficult for researchers and others to classify projects and then navigate the required compliance pathway appropriately. To address this challenge, the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia (BC) created a decision tool called the \"PHSA Project Sorter Tool\" to serve its diverse community while also meeting the unique needs of the BC regulatory and policy environment. The goal of the tool was to standardize and clarify organizational project review and ensure project leads were referred to the appropriate review body or service provider within the PHSA in the most efficient manner possible. In this paper, we describe the ethics needs assessment that was conducted to inform the tool and the results of our ongoing evaluation of the tool since it was launched in January, 2020. Our project shows that this simple tool can reduce burdens on staff and provide clarity to users by standardizing processes and terms and directing users to appropriate internal resources.","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9769582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transferring rejected manuscripts to other journals: A good practice? 将退稿转给其他期刊：好的做法？

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2199930

Clovis Mariano Faggion

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The "Monsanto papers" and the nature of ghostwriting and related practices in contemporary peer review scientific literature. 孟山都论文 "和当代同行评议科学文献中鬼画符的性质及相关做法。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2234819

Alastair Matheson

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Inclusive, engaged, and accountable institutional review boards. 包容、参与和负责的机构审查委员会。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2220884

Emily E Anderson, Ann Johnson, Holly Fernandez Lynch

{"title":"Inclusive, engaged, and accountable institutional review boards.","authors":"Emily E Anderson, Ann Johnson, Holly Fernandez Lynch","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2220884","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2220884","url":null,"abstract":"In February 2023, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released another report acknowledging that we still lack meaningful, validated, widely-accepted measures for evaluating institutional review board (IRB) quality and effectiveness. This challenge is well known to the Consortium to Advance Effective Research Ethics Oversight (www.AEREO.org), a collaborative group of human research protection (HRP) professionals, researchers, and research ethicists founded in 2018 to do precisely what GAO recommends: examine approaches for measuring IRB effectiveness in protecting human subjects, and implement the approaches as appropriate. Two underlying tenets have been central to AEREO's as approach to thinking about IRB quality and effectiveness: (1) IRBs exist to protect participants and thus the participant perspective should be central to all IRBs do; and (2) because IRBs are tasked with applying subjective ethical and regulatory standards about which people may disagree, their approach and decisions should at least meet the basic standard of reasonableness in terms of accounting for relevant perspectives, considering key factors, and providing defensible justifications. Critical to each of these tenets, IRBs should include diverse perspectives in their deliberations, find ways to meaningfully engage with relevant communities about their views regarding ethical research and appropriate participant protections, and be accountable to the public.","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9946241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why research integrity matters and how it can be improved. 研究诚信为何重要以及如何改进研究诚信。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-11 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2189010

Lex Bouter

{"title":"Why research integrity matters and how it can be improved.","authors":"Lex Bouter","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2189010","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2189010","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars need to be able to trust each other, because otherwise they cannot collaborate and use each other's findings. Similarly trust is essential for research to be applied for individuals, society or the natural environment. The trustworthiness is threatened when researchers engage in questionable research practices or worse. By adopting open science practices, research becomes transparent and accountable. Only then it is possible to verify whether trust in research findings is justified. The magnitude of the issue is substantial with a prevalence of four percent for both fabrication and falsification, and more than 50% for questionable research practices. This implies that researchers regularly engage in behaviors that harm the validity and trustworthiness of their work. What is good for the quality and reliability of research is not always good for a scholarly career. Navigating this dilemma depends on how virtuous the researcher at issue is, but also on the local research climate and the perverse incentives in the way the research system functions. Research institutes, funding agencies and scholarly journals can do a lot to foster research integrity, first and foremost by improving the quality of peer review and reforming researcher assessment.","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9085079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Addressing serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations through action plans: Interviews with institutional officials. 通过行动计划处理严重和持续的不遵守研究规定和违反诚信的行为：与机构官员的访谈。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-11 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2187292

Tristan McIntosh, Alison L Antes, Emily Schenk, Liz Rolf, James M DuBois

{"title":"Addressing serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations through action plans: Interviews with institutional officials.","authors":"Tristan McIntosh, Alison L Antes, Emily Schenk, Liz Rolf, James M DuBois","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2187292","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2023.2187292","url":null,"abstract":"Serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations undermine the quality of research and trust in science. When researchers engage in these behaviors, institutional officials (IOs) often develop corrective action plans. Ideally, such plans address the root causes so noncompliance or research integrity violations discontinue. The aim of this study was to identify what IOs perceive as causes and action plan activities typically prescribed. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 47 IOs at research institutions across the U.S. including: institutional review board and institutional animal care and use committee chairs and directors, chief research officers, research compliance and integrity officers, and institutional conflicts of interest chairs and directors. The most common root causes identified were: 1) lack of knowledge or training, 2) failure to provide research team supervision, and 3) researcher attitudes toward compliance. The most common action plan activities include: 1) retraining in compliance or research integrity, 2) follow-up and hands-on involvement with the researcher, and 3) mandated oversight or mentoring. Because the most commonly identified action plan activities fail to adequately address the majority of root causes, our findings suggest a need for IOs to rethink existing approaches to action plan development to more effectively target root causes.","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10493235/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10208655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Crossing disciplinary boundaries: An ethnographic exploration of academic publishing invitations. 跨越学科界限：学术出版邀请的人种学探索。

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Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2024.2419823

Christina Severinsen

{"title":"Crossing disciplinary boundaries: An ethnographic exploration of academic publishing invitations.","authors":"Christina Severinsen","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2419823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2419823","url":null,"abstract":"Background: This autoethnographic study examines email invitations for health researchers to publish in journals outside their expertise, exploring implications for interdisciplinary research and knowledge production.Methods: Over three months, email invitations to publish outside the author's field were documented and analysed thematically and through reflexive journaling.Results: Five main themes in publication invitations were identified: emphasising novelty, promising rapid publication, appealing to research impact, flattering language, and persistent messaging. Reflexive analysis revealed complex factors shaping responses, including publication pressures, desires for prestige, and tensions between disciplinary norms and interdisciplinary collaboration. While invitations may present opportunities for novel collaborations, they often reflect predatory publishing practices.Conclusions: Navigating this landscape requires careful discernment, commitment to academic integrity, and reflexivity about one's positionality. The study underscores the need for researchers to critically interrogate the motivations behind such invitations. Further research could explore decision-making processes across disciplines and implications for academic publishing integrity and equity.","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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