Category Archives: ethics
Authorship as part of responsible conduct of research – TENK guideline
Among the guidelines of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) is a “Guideline for agreeing on authorship. Recommendation for research publications“, dated 14.12.2017. The TENK guidelines are collected in https://tenk.fi/en/tenk-guidelines, direct link to the authorship guideline is: https://www.tenk.fi/sites/tenk.fi/files/TENK_suositus_tekijyys.pdf. I recommend … Continue reading
Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) – TENK guidelines
In the previous recent posts, I introduced TENK, the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (post 1), overviewed their resolutions for alleged misconducts in past three annual reports (post 2, post 3, post 4), introduced the Retraction Watch (post 5), and, most … Continue reading
“Hands up for mistake, we were idiots” – Some words on plagiarism
In the previous posts (post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4, post 5) related to research ethics, plagiarism was mentioned many times as a form of research misconduct. Plagiarism is among the “big three” in the international categorisation of research misconduct: Fabrication, Falsification, … Continue reading
Retraction watch – site on research integrity issues
Following a series of posts on the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK (post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4), this post shares information on a useful source of information related to research misconduct worldwide: Retraction Watch, https://retractionwatch.com/. As reported … Continue reading
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK – Annual Report 2016
As a continuation of the previous posts (post 1, post 2, post 3) this post overviews the Annual Report of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK, year 2016, related to misconducts in responsible conduct of research (RCR). The titles … Continue reading
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK – Annual Report 2017
As a continuation of the previous posts (post 1, post 2) this post overviews the Annual Report of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK, year 2017, related to misconducts in responsible conduct of research (RCR). The titles of … Continue reading
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK – Annual Report 2018
As a continuation of the previous post, this post overviews the Annual Report of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK, year 2018, related to misconducts in responsible conduct of research (RCR). The titles of the report’s Section 3, … Continue reading
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK)
Carrying out research in a responsible manner is at the core of university activities. In Finland, we have the “TENK” – Tutkimuseettinen neuvottelukunta, Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (https://www.tenk.fi/en), which sets guidelines for responsible conduct of research (RCR) in … Continue reading
