Situations may occur during implementation of a research study, after a participant withdraws or completes their participation, or after study completion that warrant assessment by Research Integrity ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Research Integrity (ORI) released its 2024 Annual Report on the final day of 2025. ORI oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS ...

Colleges will have more discretion in how they handle research-misconduct cases under a revised federal rule released Thursday. The final rule, from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, marks the ...

UAB has adopted a policy that all research-active faculty and staff renew basic instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) every four years. Like many other research institutions, UAB ...

Jensen is founder and CEO of Etalia, a health research communications and training firm. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services published new policies on research misconduct, which ...

The University IRB uses consultants to supplement IRB review when a specific project requires expertise beyond the scope of IRB membership. For example, a project/package may require: scientific or ...

Academic research institutions – They should assess their services available to researchers, and consider additional ways to support responsible collaboration on research integrity, while offering ...

Research integrity is a red-hot topic right now in the scientific community, and for good reason. Scientific misconduct has the potential to cause harm, even if unintentional. And unfortunately it’s ...

The pressure to publish can collide with ethics, leading to systemic failures, retractions, and practices that straddle the ...

Authors can avoid plagiarism by maintaining detailed records of their sources of information; being careful to identify direct quotations of the words of others using quotation marks; when not quoting ...

UAB shall accept as employees only those individuals whose career activities clearly demonstrate the highest ethical standards. To this end, the relevant credentials of all potential employees are to ...

These procedures support the policy on Research Misconduct (III.A.2). Refer to the policy for contact information and applicable definitions. Individuals with a personal, professional or financial ...