Quality of reports of investigations of research integrity by academic institutions

Research Integrity and Peer Review
Andrew GreyAlison Avenell

Abstract

Academic institutions play important roles in protecting and preserving research integrity. Concerns have been expressed about the objectivity, adequacy and transparency of institutional investigations of potentially compromised research integrity. We assessed the reports provided to us of investigations by three academic institutions of a large body of overlapping research with potentially compromised integrity. In 2017, we raised concerns with four academic institutions about the integrity of > 200 publications co-authored by an overlapping set of researchers. Each institution initiated an investigation. By November 2018, three had reported to us the results of their investigations, but only one report was publicly available. Two investigators independently assessed each available report using a published 26-item checklist designed to determine the quality and adequacy of institutional investigations of research integrity. Each assessor recorded additional comments ad hoc. Concerns raised with the institutions were overlapping, wide-ranging and included those which were both general and publication-specific. The number of potentially affected publications at individual institutions ranged from 34 to 200. The duration of inves...Continue Reading

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Mar 9, 2006·Annals of Internal Medicine·Harold C Sox, Drummond Rennie
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Oct 31, 2015·BMJ : British Medical Journal·Richard Smith, Fiona Godlee
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Jan 9, 2020·Nature·Andrew GreyC K Gunsalus
Sep 18, 2020·Forensic Sciences Research·Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira
Nov 14, 2019·Research Integrity and Peer Review·Andrew GreyAlison Avenell
Nov 19, 2020·Accountability in Research·Mark J BollandAndrew A Klein
Apr 22, 2021·Accountability in Research·Andrew GreyMark Bolland
Aug 31, 2021·Accountability in Research·Shila AbdiKris Dierickx
Sep 18, 2021·Accountability in Research·Anna Catharina Vieira Armond, Péter Kakuk

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