Enhancing Partnerships of Institutions and Journals to Address Concerns About Research Misconduct

作者：Susan Garfinkel, Sabina Alam, Patricia K. Baskin, Christina N. Bennett, Bridget Carruthers, Jeffrey A. Engler, Annette Flanagin, Sheila Garrity, Chris Graf, Michael J. Imperiale, Christopher King, Sabine Kleinert, Dan Kulp, Courtney Mankowski, Nicola Nugent, Teodoro Pulvirenti, Lauran Qualkenbush, Emily Sobiecki, Daniel Wainstock, Erica Wilfong Boxheimer, Loren E. Wold, Jennifer K. Yucel · 发表于：JAMA Network Open · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.20796 · 被引用次数：12 · 研究领域：Academic integrity and plagiarism、Academic Publishing and Open Access、Research Data Management Practices

Importance: Institutions and journals strive to promote and protect the integrity of the research record, and both groups are equally committed to ensuring the reliability of all published data. Observations: Three US universities coordinated a series of virtual meetings from June 2021 to March 2022 for a working group composed of senior, experienced US research integrity officers (RIOs), journal editors, and publishing staff who are familiar with managing issues of research integrity and publication ethics. The goal of the working group was to improve the collaboration and transparency between institutions and journals to ensure that research misconduct and publication ethics are managed properly and efficiently. Recommendations address the following: identifying proper contacts at institutions and journals, specifying information to share between institutions and journals, correcting the research record, reconsideration of some fundamental research misconduct concepts, and journal policy changes. The working group identified 3 key recommendations to be adopted and implemented to change the status quo for better collaboration between institutions and journals: (1) reconsideration and broadening of the interpretation by institutions of the need-to-know criteria in federal regulations (ie, confidential or sensitive information and data are not disclosed unless there is a need for an individual to know the facts to perform specific jobs or functions), (2) uncoupling the evaluat...