PIXABAY, SKEEZEA National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee on research integrity recommends the formation on an independent, nonprofit advisory board to establish means of curbing misconduct and other practices that undermine research quality. The guidance is part of a report, published yesterday (April 12), outlining ways to “strengthen self-correcting mechanisms that are an implicit part of research.”
“The ultimate goal of the board would be to create a climate in which we never have to investigate research misconduct because it never occurs,” Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Science, told ScienceInsider.
The suggested Research Integrity Advisory Board (RIAB) would help develop and promote best practices for encouraging responsible behaviors in science and for handling fraud. “For example, the RIAB could serve as a forum for the discussion of issues where no community consensus currently exists (such as what the appropriate penalties for research misconduct should be) or where current disparate approaches should be harmonized (such as the implementation of the federal research misconduct policy in areas such as plagiarism),” according to the report.
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