H2020 INTEGRITY

Op-ed

March 7

New INTEGRITY study uncovers widespread unethical practice for assigning authorships

Conflict of interest in research is sometimes misunderstood, especially by those who believe that the mere existence of such a conflict is per se a violation of ethical principles, which is not.

Mads Paludan Goddiksen, Mikkel Willum Johansen, Thomas Bøker Lund & Peter Sandøe

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Op-ed

January 25

Conflict of interest in research: what is it and why it matters?

Conflict of interest in research is sometimes misunderstood, especially by those who believe that the mere existence of such a conflict is per se a violation of ethical principles, which is not.

Roberto Andorno

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Project

January 11

Integrity Games: Empowering students with a gamified learning tool.

Integrity Games is the new teaching tool aimed at undergraduate university students across the faculties.

Mikkel Johansen & Mads Goddiksen

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Op-ed

December 28

Bad news for reproducibility in Cancer biology.

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology is the first of its kind in bio-medical fields which results points towards the need for major reforms in Cancer biology.

Aurélien Allard

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Op-ed

November 9

Designing a MOOC aimed to empower.

Elevate Health is currently designing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), a free open access course with no limit of participants.

Eline Borsboom

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Project

October 21

Diner Pensant – tasteful conversations to empower good practices in science.

On October 14, 2021, the Diner Pensant brought together academics and researchers to debate common integrity dilemmas.

Paulo Gomes

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Op-ed

October 1

Research Integrity and practice of Open Science.

How can Open Science Policy and Research Integrity strengthen each other and what are the challenges they face?

Aistė Bartkienė

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Op-ed

September 13

GCR – Grateful Conduct in Research.

When gratitude and integrity are intimately connected, we express our own dignity by respecting the dignity of others.

Matej Purger

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Project

September 2

How to engage students in online integrity courses.

Is there a solution to prevent students from becoming inactive and dropping out of online integrity courses?

Hanneke Mol

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Project

August 23

Why students don’t report dishonesty.

We all have an obligation to fight dishonesty, however, students are very reluctant to report peer dishonesty.

Mikkel Johansen

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News

August 11

New paradigms on Research Integrity.

Most of the initiatives on Research Integrity are developed in the context of high-income countries. That’s why the World Conference on Research Integrity is expanding the discussions to the contexts of low and middle-income countries.

Anna Armond & Orsolya Varga

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Op-ed

July 12

Teaching research integrity in the age of fake news.

Should teaching research integrity constitute a new basis for improving collective knowledge and the ability to detect and criticize received information?

Aurélien Allard

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Op-ed

July 2

Why does scientific misconduct occur?

What strange attraction leads scientists to act in a way that so openly contradicts the central goal of the scientific enterprise?

Roberto Andorno

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Project

June 16

Co-creation with high school students: developing materials for teaching Research Integrity.

Science Gallery Dublin and Trinity College Dublin ran a programme with high school students designed to test the tools developed to date under INTEGRITY work package 4.

Róisín McGannon, Grace Darcy, Brendan Owens, Una Quinn & P.J. Wall

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Op-ed

June 4

Too many cooks spoil the soup.

Fraud and manipulation, challenges with big data and the decline of science. None of this is new. These issues were already on the agenda in the UK in the 1830s.

Vidar Enebakk

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Project

May 7

Testing the INTEGRITY teaching modules with high school students.

Irish high school students tested and provided key feedback about the INTEGRITY teaching modules about academic integrity and responsible conduct in research.

Rita Santos

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Op-ed

April 9

Evaluation, evaluation, evaluation?

Elevate Health has completed the pilot phase of the three SPOCs and several assignments were revised for the next official run.

Annemarije de Beer, Danice Winkelhorst & Anke van Mil

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Op-ed

April 1

Publication bias – understanding statistical significance.

Why is scientific research with negative results less likely to be published than research with positive results?

Eugenijus Gefenas, Margarita Poškutė & Vygintas Aliukonis

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Op-ed

March 12

Research ethics and integrity in humanities.

What is often absent from the considerations of research ethics and research integrity is the question about the ethical acceptability of the subject.

Vojko Strahovnik

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Op-ed

March 3

Do male and female researchers behave differently and have different attitudes regarding integrity issues? That is the question*.

Is there enough data to support the idea that gender differences are relevant regarding research integrity?

Mariëtte vd Hoven & Hanneke Mol

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Op-ed

February 17

An alarming facet of ghostwriting: the contract cheating.

Violations of academic integrity by students vary widely, and one emerging problem is called ‘contract cheating’.

Anna Armond & Orsolya Varga

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Op-ed

February 9

The importance of interdisciplinarity for scientific progress.

Is the promotion of interdisciplinary research a way to uproot traditional biases and suboptimal research methods on scientific integrity?

Aurélien Allard

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Project

February 4

INTEGRITY Consortium Annual e-Meeting.

The 3rd INTEGRITY Annual Consortium Meeting was held in January 2021 as a fully online event, where the latest developments were presented.

Rita Santos

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Project

January 27

Teaching Research Integrity to High School Students.

INTEGRITY consortium partners have team up to develop tailor-made and innovative tools for the high school student cohort.

P.J. Wall

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Project

December 29

Case discussions are not the gold standard of Research Integrity training.

Check out this sneak preview of a major findings from a systematic review on education for a responsible conduct of research (RCR).

Johannes Katsarov, Roberto Andorno, André Krom, & Mariëtte van den Hoven

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Op-ed

November 20

Why teach Integrity to High School Students?

Can critical reflection and focus group discussions be the answer to effectively empower young students into responsible academic and research practices?

Rita Santos

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Op-ed

October 30

Peer-review crisis: reviewer fatigue.

For decades, researchers have relied on data from peer-reviewed journals, but peer review is now facing a human resources crisis.

Vygintas Aliukonis

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News

October 28

Integrity Thursdays with Utrecht University

How do we learn to speak more openly about integrity? Join this debate at Integrity Thursdays promoted by Utrecth University.

Anna Olsson

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Op-ed

October 21

Finding the perfect balance: the design of an online course.

Here's an interesting question to ask yourself when you have plans for developing course materials: who came first, the teacher or the learner?

Nienke Verdonk

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Op-ed

October 8

Challenging times ahead.

By adopting Responsible Conduct in Research we acknowledge the hard work of others. So, what’s love got to do with RCR?

Matej Purger

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News

September 21

INTEGRATHON workshop.

The University of Geneva provided the INTEGRATHON workshop to develop soft incentives (nudges) to promote scientific integrity.

Céline Schöpfer

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Op-ed

September 7

Online education in Responsible Conduct in Research

The Covid-19 pandemic has promoted the development of creative and inspiring ways of teaching. Small Private Online Courses can be the answer.

Mariëtte van den Hoven

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Op-ed

August 24

Research integrity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has extremely affected the scientific community and shifted the paradigm of how research is disseminated.

Anna Armond & Orsolya Varga

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Op-ed

August 13

Gently push people to act in a more prosocial way.

How to improve moral decision-making and promote a prosocial action instead of an individualistic or selfish behavior?

Céline Schöpfer

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Op-ed

August 6

Dealing with anomalous data.

Can research integrity be taught through simples rules, pointing out particular actions that are not allowed?

Mikkel Johansen

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Op-ed

July 6

Engaging with the concept of empowerment.

Key to any work involving research integrity is to “empower (future) researchers instead of floating them in a corner of misconduct”.

P.J. Wall

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Op-ed

June 19

What to do if students are not interested in research integrity?

How to gain participants’ interest in research integrity courses, if they lack the intrinsic motivation to learn about this topic in the first place?

Johannes Katsarov

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Op-ed

June 5

i3S, a showcase on RI training. An experience from an observer’s perspective.

The Research Ethics | Integrity: hands-on seminars at i3S provided key insights on the needs to implement training at Research Integrity to all levels of the research career.

Rita Santos

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Op-ed

May 29

Feeling at home in an online environment.

The qualities of e-moderators are key to the success of online training courses, creating a trusting online environment, where students feel confident to speak and share their thought.

Nienke Verdonk

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Op-ed

May 22

Beware of predatory journals.

With such a high supply of academic journals how to distinguish between journals that are worthy of attention and those which are better to avoid?

Vygintas Aliukonis

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Op-ed

May 11

Covid-19 and INTEGRITY.

The impact of Covid-19 is challenging the integrity of research. So how important is scientific rigour during a public health crisis?

Anna Olsson

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Op-ed

May 4

Developing educational material on supervision and mentoring to stimulate RCR.

Educational materials on supervision and mentoring are key to promote transparency in the entire research process, communication among researchers, and to avoid conflicts.

Mariëtte van den Hoven

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Op-ed

April 17

Integrity in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.

How has coronavirus pandemic changed the lives of students and teachers?

Roman Globokar

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Op-ed

March 25

Integrity in the meat grinder.

How can researchers collaborate with partners outside the university while still preserving the integrity of science?

Mikkel Johansen

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Op-ed

March 11

Bottom-up initiatives for fostering research integrity.

Young researchers and students are on the frontline to have an open dialogue in a safe environment to discuss day-to-day integrity issues.

Orsolya Varga

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Op-ed

March 2

So… I am not the only one?

The use of examples of bad practice is necessary, but are these the only examples to teach integrity to young researchers?

Céline Schöpfer

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Project

February 27

First year disseminating the project.

During the first 12 months, H2020 INTEGRITY was showcased through public presentations and outreach events to raise awareness of the project.

Paulo Gomes

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News

February 14

Kick-off of the European Survey Study on Students’ perceptions and needs of Research Integrity.

The H2020 INTEGRITY Project launched an online survey in nine European countries focused on students at high school, bachelor and PhD.

Rita Santos

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News

January 31

2nd Consortium Annual Meeting.

On the 29th to 30th of January 2020 the H2020 INTEGRITY consortium conducted its 2nd Consortium Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Rita Santos

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Op-ed

January 21

Ethics, Technology and International Development: the case for a critical realist philosophical approach.

Technology is ubiquitous in even the most far-flung corners of the planet. This will result in significant changes to the way we live, learn, and work.