Responsible Conduct of Research Training

The following materials are available for Responsible Conduct of Research training.

Contents

• Collaborative Science
• Conflicts of Interest and Commitments
• Data Acquisition, Management, Sharing and Ownership
• Human Research Protections
• Intellectual Property and Commercialization
• Lab Animal Welfare
• Mentoring
• Peer Review
• Publication Practices and Responsible Authorship
• Research Misconduct

Collaborative Science

• BUILD EXITO: a multi-level intervention to support diversity in health-focused research
• Individual motivation and threat indicators of collaboration readiness in scientific knowledge producing teams: a scoping review and domain analysis
• The multidisciplinary translational team (MTT) model for training and development of translational research investigators
• Team science approach to developing consensus on research good practices for practice-based research networks: A case study
• Valley of death: A proposal to build a “translational bridge” for the next generation
• Multinational teams and diseconomies of scale in collaborative research

Conflicts of Interest and Commitments

• Conflicts of interest among committee members in the National Academies’ genetically engineered crop study
• Benchmarks for ethically credible partnerships between industry and academic health centers: beyond disclosure of financial conflicts of interest
• Addressing bias and conflict of interest among biomedical researchers
• Researcher perspectives on conflicts of interest: A qualitative analysis of views from academia
• Conflict of interest disclosure in biomedical research: a review of current practices, biases, and the role of public registries in improving transparency
• Managing conflicts of interest in industry-sponsored clinical research: More physician engagement is required

Data Acquisition, Management, Sharing and Ownership

• Patient consent to publication and data sharing in industry and NIH-funded clinical trials
• International Charter of principles for sharing bio-specimens and data
• Using social media for health research: Methodological and ethical considerations for recruitment and intervention delivery
• Handling big data: Research challenges and future directions
• Resolving complex research data management issues in biomedical laboratories: Qualitative study of an industry–academia collaboration
• The ethics of big data: Current and foreseeable issues in biomedical contexts

Human Research Protections

• Seeking consent for research with indigenous communities: A systematic review
• National ethical guidelines for biomedical & health research involving human participants, 2017: A commentary
• The role of the virtuous investigator in protecting human research subjects
• Ethical principles for the use of human cellular biotechnologies
• Examining the social benefits principle in research with human participants
• Piloting a nationally disseminated, interactive human subjects protection program for community partners: Design, content, and evaluation

Intellectual Property and Commercialization

• Do patents of academic funded researchers enjoy a longer life? A study of patent renewal decisions
• Persistent confusion and controversy surrounding gene patents
• Commercialization of university inventions: Individual and institutional factors affecting licensing of university patents
• Learning in university technology transfer offices: Transactions-focused and relations-focused approaches to commercialization of academic research
• From academic laboratory to the market: Disclosed and undisclosed narratives of commercialization
• Technology transfer: From the research bench to commercialization

Lab Animal Welfare

• Professionalism and ethics in animal research
• Improving quality of science through better animal welfare: The NC3Rs strategy
• Exploring the gaps in practical ethical guidance for animal welfare considerations of field interventions and innovations targeting dogs and cats
• The role of the IACUC in ensuring research reproducibility
• The role of the IACUC in the design and conduct of animal experiments that contribute to translational success
• The three Rs of animal research: What they mean for the institutional animal care and use committee and why

Mentoring

• Mentorship and ethics in global health: Fostering scientific integrity and responsible conduct of research
• Creating more effective mentors: Mentoring the mentor
• Defining attributes and metrics of effective research mentoring relationships
• Characteristics of successful and failed mentoring relationships: A qualitative study across two academic health centers
• The Munich-Evaluation-of-Mentoring-Questionnaire (MEMeQ) – a novel instrument for evaluating proteges satisfaction with mentoring relationships in medical education
• Spectrum Approach to Mentoring: an evidence-based approach to mentoring for academics working in higher education

Peer Review

• Opening peer-review: The democracy of science
• Give until it hurts
• Awareness of publication guidelines and the responsible conduct of research
• Doing peer review: Reflections from an international group of postdoctoral fellows
• Researcher perspectives on publication and peer review of data
• Strategies to prevent or reduce gender bias in peer review of research grants: A rapid scoping review

Publication Practices and Responsible Authorship

• Neutralising fair credit: Factors that influence unethical authorship practices
• Biomedical authors’ awareness of publication ethics: An international survey
• Authorship ethics in global health research partnerships between researchers from low or middle income countries and high income countries
• Manuscript development and publishing: A 5-Step approach
• Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research
• A Theoretical foundation for the ethical distribution of authorship in multidisciplinary publications

Research Misconduct

• Research misconduct: Time for a re-think?
• Research misconduct: A grand global challenge for the 21st Century
• Interventions to prevent misconduct and promote integrity in research and publication
• Fostering responsible research practices is a shared responsibility of multiple stakeholders
• Scientists admitting to plagiarism: A meta-analysis of surveys
• Perceptions of plagiarism by STEM graduate students: A case study